Do you know the most common password in the business world? If
you do, that's the problem. Lots of other people also know or
can guess: It's Password1. That bit of confirming wisdom is
contained in the 2012 Global Security Report from security firm
Trustwave, released last month. The report, built on data from
2,000 vulnerability scans at client companies and 300 recent
investigations into security breaches, highlights key data
security risk areas and trends -- and one of the ongoing ones is
selection of an insufficiently obscure and complex password.
Satisfies Active Directory The most common way of breaking into
protected computers or networks is by guessing the password.
Password1, in that exact form, satisfies the conditions that are
required by Microsoft 's Active Directory, in that it has a
capital letter, a number, and a sufficient number of characters.
While Password1 is the most common single password, some
variation on the word 'password' accounts for about 5 percent of
all passwords. The next most