Thursday, May 27, 2010

How Hacking Of Passwords Is Achieved?


Nowadays we use a lot of electronic tools such as email ,electronic bank account and many more electronic tools that we need password to use them, so we must make sure our password is safe or not?

These days several methods of password hacking is getting popular.
These methods can be categorized into 3 main sections which are as follows:

-the first and probably the most convenient method for hackers is social engineering which will get some personal information from you and will guess your password according to those info.
-the second way is decrypting your encrypted password key which was made by a hash program to achieve your password, this method needs lots of knowledge and a skilled and experienced hacker.
-the third and the last method is by using Brute Force technique which is done by a program , the procedure is very simple ,these programs will try several random keys with different combination to find your password but it would be a bit time-consuming.
My suggestion is to choose longer and less guessable password to make sure your accounts are safe.

http://www.hackingalert.com/hacking-articles/password-hackers.php

2 comments:

  1. Often times people also reason that all of their passwords and logins are stored on their computer at home, which is save behind a router or firewall device. Of course, they’ve never bothered to change the default password on that device, so someone could drive up and park near the house, use a laptop to breach the wireless network and then try passwords from this list until they gain control of your network – after which time they will own you!

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  2. If you are using "123456" as your password it is past time to stop. Same if you are using the always popular "Password" to protect your account. Those easy-to-hack passwords were the top and fourth most-popular from among 32 million hacked from RockYou.com, a new study finds.

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