Winners and Losers in Password Bracketology

A recent study shows that theres a clear winner in the most used sports mascot password competition.

Everyone knows you shouldnt use words like password as part of your secure password, but what about other words? What about sports team mascots? Keeper Security ran an analysis theyve called Password Madness to check on which mascots win the most-used prize and the brackets have been filled.
Keeper Security ran their analysis on the massive database of 1.4 billion clear-text credentials
4iQ found
on the dark web. What they found was a clear winner and loser.
According to a statement from Keeper Security, of all the passwords looked at, those containing Tiger and its variations (such as T1ger, T1g3r, etc.) appeared 187 percent more often than passwords containing variations of Eagle, the second-most common password set found, and nearly 850 percent more than the least common password, which was Bluejay and its variations.
Since many people re-use the same password on nearly every online account, patterns such as this open up hundreds of thousands of credentials to speedy hacking. Keeper Security recommends that users find other, less risky, ways of honoring their favorite sports teams.
For more, read
here
.

Last News
▸ ArcSight prepares for future at user conference post HP acquisition. ◂ Discovered: 07/01/2025 Category: security	▸ Samsung Epic 4G: First To Use Media Hub ◂ Discovered: 07/01/2025 Category: security	▸ Many third-party software fails security tests ◂ Discovered: 07/01/2025 Category: security

**Cyber Security Categories**
Google Dorks Database	Exploits Vulnerability	Exploit Shellcodes

CVE List

Tools/Apps

News/Aarticles

Phishing Database

Deepfake Detection

Trends/Statistics & Live Infos

Tags:
Winners and Losers in Password Bracketology