The data size: 38698 users on 2 sites.

Top ten most used passwords are:

1. seinfeld
2. password
3. winner
4. 123456
5. purple
6. sweeps
7. contest
8. princess
9. maggie
10. peanut

So if you have a password that is listed above, you better change it pretty soon.

I also compared how many people were using the same password on two different hacked Sony sites. There were 2421 users who used the same email to register and out of those only 168 users were using different passwords (about 6.5%).

And who wins the email war? Based on the same data, most of the users were using emails from the following providers:

Here are the properties of RawCap from their webpage:

• Can sniff any interface that has got an IP address, including 127.0.0.1 (localhost/loopback)
• RawCap.exe is just 17 kB
• No external libraries or DLL’s needed other than .NET Framework 2.0
• No installation required, just download RawCap.exe and sniff
• Can sniff most interface types, including WiFi and PPP interfaces
• Minimal memory and CPU load
• Reliable and simple to use

For downloading and some screenshots and more information click here.

I just got my OTP generator from Blizzard. It has a nice horde colors touch. The activation was very simple. I was expecting that it would replace my static password, but it didn’t. Instead it asks your password first (what you know) then it asks the code generated by the token in a second window (what you have).

It’s very nice to see from a computer game vendor to use two factor authentication. And here is a picture

Here is the changelog,

Here are the release notes,

And here is the download link.

I want to mention one more time how much I appreciate all work done on this exceptional product.