December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
232 pages
5h 8m
English
Content preview from Secure Your Node.js Web Application
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Enforce Password Strength Rules on Your Users
Now that we’ve covered storage, let’s talk about the password itself. Most users aren’t security conscious, so you have to help the user when selecting a password. The table is a top-ten list of the most popular passwords from 2014[49] It’s obvious that people don’t really think about account security.
Table 1. Top-ten Passwords of 2014
| Position | Password | 2014 Rank | | | Position | Password | 2014 Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 123456 | Unchanged | | | 6. | 123456789 | Unchanged |
| 2. | password | Unchanged | | | 7. | 1234 | Up 9 |
| 3. | 12345 | Up 17 | | | 8. | baseball | New |
| 4. | 12345678 | Down 1 | | | 9 | dragon | New |
| 5. | qwerty | Down 1 | | | 10. | football | New |
Don’t let your users use common dictionary passwords, because your high-tech security measures are useless if the user is using monkey ...
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