MySpace users: Get better passwords

If parents are looking for conversation openers with their teens social networking, one might be MySpace passwords. PC security experts actually have some numbers of people tricked by a phishing scam I mentioned in my recent item on social engineering. Because of a fake log-in page MySpace users click to on the phishers' Web server, they have 60,000 user names (email addresses) and passwords of MySpace users, reports Washington Post security writer Brian Krebs. The fake log-in page pops up before people get to the phishing site "which is most likely being advertised via blasts of junk email" and "looks identical to the real MySpace.com login page." Which gets us to the conversation opener I mentioned: stupid passwords (the insecure kind that people can easily guess). Brian lists some of the passwords these phishers have collected. The Top 10 (most popular and therefore most guessable) are: password1, abc123, swimmer1, iloveyou1, monkey1, ****you, 123456, myspace1, ****you1, and - possibly the most narcissistic one – i.