Friday, October 5, 2012

Will you find your PIN between these combinations?

The combination of four numbers, that we use as a security protection for our SIM cards, payment cards, computers and other devices,so you may still not so secure after all.
Nick Berry, president of the "Data Genetics" and a person who magazine "Sunday Times" declared one of the 50 best entrepreneurs of the decade, with a long analysis came up with the most commonly used combinations of PIN codes that people use. Their data, he published on "datagenetics.com".


People are not aware of how the choice of his PIN code, affects the security of their data reduction. Nick Berry said that this is not a manual for the thieves, but attempt people to realize the dangers that threaten them.


According to his analysis, almost 27% of people use one of these combinations of common PIN codes. The most common combination of numbers can be easily guessed, and it is 1234. Next is a combination of 1111 which is used by more than 6% of people. Third commonly used combination is 0000, which is used by almost 2% of people.
The worrying fact is that that despite all the warnings about data protection, people still use these codes. This analysis indicates that 27% of the codes in the world can be easily guessed because they are found on this census.
Combinations of the numbers 1111, 2222, 3333 to 9999, are also among the frequently used PIN codes, as well as combinations 1212 and 6969. Not surprisingly, neither the fact that combinations of numbers such as 1122, 1313, 4321 or 1010, also ranked highly on the list of most commonly used PIN codes.

The last ten numbers on the list of 10 000 most frequently used combinations of PIN codes are 0859, 8957, 9480, 6793, 8398, 0738, 7637, 6835, 9629, 8093 and last 8068








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