• DocumentCode
    139206
  • Title

    Passwords to absolutely avoid

  • Author

    Violettas, George E. ; Papadopoulos, Kyriakos

  • Author_Institution
    ICT Dept., Tech. Training Coll. (TTC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    17-19 Feb. 2014
  • Firstpage
    60
  • Lastpage
    68
  • Abstract
    This paper describes the password habits of web users, particularly in Greece. A study was conducted online to ask users questions about the length of the password they use today, in how many web sites they use the same password, whether they use personal data while constructing their passwords and if they ever used as a password some of trivial words. They were also asked whether they reveal their password(s) to friends and/or family and if they ever realized that their password was exposed or revealed to an attacker and the measures they took after that. Additionally, an extended literature review about password habits and effectiveness regarding length and complexity is included. At the end of the paper, for first time in Greece, there is a list of the 100 passwords that Greek users should absolutely avoid using due to the ease of guessing or weak complexity, short length or simply because they exist in every dictionary used for password attacks in the wild.
  • Keywords
    Web sites; authorisation; Greece; Web sites; Web users; password attacks; Complexity theory; Computers; Dictionaries; Force; Internet; Security; Web sites; Password; Security; Study; Web Sites;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT), 2014 Fifth International Conference on the
  • Conference_Location
    Bangalore
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-2258-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICADIWT.2014.6814693
  • Filename
    6814693