As is known a good password is one that's hard to guess, yet easy to remember. Yet a great number of Internet users fail to consider these two main factors when inventing secret login credentials. It seems that anyone of the Internet surfers can become an average statistical hacker when it comes to finding passwords to different kind of accounts in social networking, email and even financial services. The task of fitting a password to an account is simplified by users themselves as most people are just too lazy to thoroughly think over secure and reliable passwords. Besides, many of users just suppose that no one cares for their personal information and hence they create simple combinations of letters and figures that are easy to remember.

A research by Protocom Development Systems explained that short and unsophisticated passwords look attractive to most people as 35% of the Internet users have to remember up to 5 combinations while 38% have to remember from 6 to 10 passwords. In addition, ¼ of the users regularly forget their credentials and that is why majority of them neglect experts’ advice and use very primitive keys.

Create password patterns and hack any account

If you want to hack an account you need password patterns that you will use to fit the right key. A typical user creates a password with the following combinations. Here you are:

1. 123456 – this is the easiest and the most common password key. Website members just may use this combination or reverse one 654321. As long as on some websites they require a password that should not be shorter than 8 characters the combination thus is prolonged to contain two more figure and look like 12345678. Naturally, reverse combination is possible too.
2. password, superuser, my password and so on. Many services usually assign a default password like these and many lazy-bones just don’t find it necessary to change a default key to their own combination.
3. Movies. Examples: Matrix, StarWars, Blade and so on. As it was noted on one website Hollywood fan people just cannot think about any other password that is not related to the industry.
4. Cities or countries. Yeah, entering a city or a country name may be simple and at the same time more or less secure but just for a short time. People think that inasmuch as there are too many cities in the world it would take a long time for a hacker to find the best match to their account.
5. Obscene words. Many users create password keys out obscene words, insults or words related to sex like sexsex, porno, biteme, eatdirt and etc. This may meet the requirement to make a password easy to remember but it has nothing to do with the security.
6. A login modified password. Some users try to create easy to remember passwords by slightly modifying their usernames with the addition of figures or a couple of letters, sometimes their initials. Thus, if a user has a login name like Pepper a password may look in the nature of Pepper1234.
7. Sport teams. As movies are peculiar to people loving films and actors, sport teams can most likely be met with the sport fans or players. Surely, no one can accurately tell you what is the name of the team you use as a password from the first. But that is also not a guarantee of security.
8. Music bands and singers. Well, the number of music artists is rather impressive taking into consideration that we listen not only to our local bands or performers as the world becomes the single village due to globalization and integration.
9. Actors and cartoon characters. Too many actors and too many cartoons. The choice may look optimum but yet it is as vulnerable as any of the above options. It may be kind of a challenge for a hacker but not a real barrier.
10. Common passwords: god, love, lust, money, private, qwerty, secret, sex, snoopy. Why would a user strain his/her brains? He/she would just use common words especially for those services that have nothing to do with financial operations.

On the basis of these common passwords you just need to create a pattern taking into account the information you know about a person and here you are in the account you have hacked after 50th or 100th trial! Well, if you were not so lucky then it is most likely you have run across an advanced user who creates passwords thoroughly combining letters, upper and lower cases and figures in a password that is not shorter than 8 characters and which is more he/she regularly changes his/her passwords. But surely, for a professional fraudster there is almost no password that could be uncrackable.