This Thursday, it's time to train your brain to win the gold in multitasking:
Yahoo hack reveals most-used passwords
Seems to be the season for security breaches. This time, it deals with a subsection of Yahoo, called Yahoo Voices. Hackers posted more than 450,000 login names and passwords of Voices users, and it was said to be done as a wake-up call to Yahoo and others to step up security. The Voices section of Yahoo was slacking in security and did not hash passwords or require complicated strings.
CNET's Declan McCullagh wrote a program to comb through the most frequently used passwords that surfaced in the breach. The most common password was 123456. Other popular choices include the word "password" and pop-culture terms like superman, starwars and ncc1701, which is the registry of the USS Enterprise. Yeah, don't boldly go with that as your password.
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