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Submission + - Your Birthday Is a Terrible Password 1

DaJoky writes: "This week's major Yahoo password breach exposed well over 400,000 passwords. Analysis of the password data dump reveals that many users are still clueless. A simple census of the stolen password reveals "123456" and "password" as the top two choices.
Neil J. Rubenking from PCMag SecurityWatch shows a significantly more complex series of analyses to the hashed passwords released in last month's LinkedIn breach, revealing patterns that go beyond merely identifying the most-used passwords."
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Submission + - Discovered Patterns in Numeric Passwords Raise New Questions (qualys.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Looking at a heat map representing numerical LinkedIn passwords, an abnormal line in the upper right corner was noticed. A weird range of nearly complete sequential list of 423 numbers from 67108865 to 67108899 and 67109000 to 67109397. At the time of writing this post, LinkedIn haven't confirmed that the accounts related to this range may have been automatically generated in some way.

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