Many Passwords Easy for Hackers to Crack

Boston (DbTechNo) – Results of a new study show that hacking passwords to access email, computers and secure sites is not as hard as one might think.

Passwords are put in place by people to protect their privacy, with the most common example of which being email accounts, which total in the billions.

Many people choose number or letter combinations that are easy for hackers to crack, due to their simplicity.

The popular “123456,” and “abcdef” passwords are no longer secure because they are the first letter or number combinations that hackers will shoot for.

People also tend to use their birth dates for passwords, number combinations which are also a sinch for hackers to figure out.

If this is not bad enough, there is now automated password hacking software which inputs millions of different number/letter combinations which usually results in a successful hack.

“To quantify the issue, the combination of poor passwords and automated attacks means that in just 110 attempts, a hacker will typically gain access to one new account on every second or a mere 17 minutes to break into 1000 accounts,” Imperva said in its report.

For a hack-safe password, computer users are urged to think of a secret password which is at least 8 characters in length, should contain both upper and lower case letters, and should contain both letters and numbers.

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