ingenious ways to crack your secrets. But with the right tricks, you
can learn to outsmart them and protect your privacy.
When you go on holiday, you wouldn't leave your front door open to
burglars – yet many of us are equivalently foolhardy with our online
identities.
As our colleagues at Brit Lab explain in the video , there are three
primary ways that hackers use to crack your passwords. Phishing scams
are the most well-known – where a fake email (often promising instant
riches) will send you to an apparently credible website that asks you
to enter the secret code.
The second involves clever guesses. The word "password" is still the
most popular password, followed closely behind by "123456". Even if
you think you are being clever with a pet or family name, it's not so
hard for a hacker to guess from Facebook or Twitter profiles. Nor do
references to popular culture – like the ship number from the USS
Enterprise – take too long to guess; such choices are probably already
lurking in a database of potential password hacks.
When that fails, hackers can use sheer brute force: algorithms can
power their way through 8 billion password combinations a second. One
of these programs could have cracked a six-letter code within the
blink of eye; 12 numbers would take just over three minutes.
Luckily, in this video Brit Lab's Greg Foot offers some smart
techniques to confound even the most determined fraudster.
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