Tuesday, May 28, 2013

A team of hackers hack 16-character passwords

If you think having 7 to 8 character passwords, will get your account

secured, and makes it so difficult for hackers to find, then you need

think again. Those passwords are now the easiest to crack.

A team of hackers have successfully hack more than 14,800 random

passwords of a list of 16,449 tech sites. According to them, the

success rate for each hacker range from 62% to 90%. Wow! It took one

hacker 60 minutes to cracked 16-character passwords;even hacked those

confusing passwords such as 'qeadzcwrsfxv1331'.

They, however, gave us tips in order to get our accounts secured from

hackers. They said it is imperative for every internet user to have

more than 7 to 8 characters passwords, with upper and lower case.

Also, do not use real names such as Jesus as passwords, these are

easily hacked.

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