Why Choosing Password from Small Range of Characters is a Bad Idea
One of the basic prevention of your account is choosing a password. Since password is the most important thing beside the username, many kind of hacking password technique was founded. If you are using small range of characters as your password, here is why it’s bad. Small range means less time to hack. Just figure it out at Password Recovery Speeds to see how fast we can hack the password with brute force. Example:
Brute force WoW account hack
How you keep your password safe?
What do you think about your password, is it safe enough? How do you manage it to safe? Any idea?
Related:
- Twitter PowerShell Script (on10.net)
- Hotmail POP3 access now available for US, Brazil, 9 others (liveside.net)
- The Agony of the Lost WordPress Password (lorelle.wordpress.com)
- A Note to HBR Subscribers (blogs.harvardbusiness.org)
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Why Choosing Password from Small Range of Characters is a Bad Idea is posted on March 4th, 2009 by buchin. This post is filed under: Security, Hack, Password, Password Protection, Password Recovery, Security, Shareware, User, Windows .
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