Password Cracking Is Easy: Here’s How to Do It

For less than $50, someone can crack the average password.

Cracking a majority of passwords can be easier than you think. By the time you’re done with this article, you’ll know how it’s done, and will probably have all the knowledge and tools you need to crack passwords yourself (I’m not saying this as a way to encourage you to try, but rather as a warning to highlight the importance of using a strong password because of just how simple it can be to crack an easy one).

When it comes to preserving your privacy and identity on the Internet, passwords are the most common for protection. It’s so common that most of us take its importance for granted. Every website we visit, every service we sign up for, requires a password as a form of identity verification.

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Kenny
Kenny

Written by Kenny

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What are your thoughts?

Good article. About password managers, if it is made by a company who will garanty there is no backdoor?
I will go for open source which is made by many programmers. Everyone can see the source and when a backdoor is found i hope it will be made publicly.

I may not be good at math, but that number is about 36 nonillion. To put it in perspective, that’s 1 followed by 30 zeros. Good article by the way.

Excellent article that helps illustrate the real dangers of data breaches and how they can lead to your most important accounts getting hacked. I think at some point companies need more pressure to move away from MD5 encryption. A few additional…...