Few Ways of Hacking Your Password

Probably you are still wondering, how anyone can get hold of your password. Well, here are the main three techniques introduced, which will convince you that having a weak password is very incautious.

1. Stealing. This is the most popular and simplest way to compromise passwords, which can be realized by finding it written down somewhere or simply watching over your shoulder when you type it.
2. Guessing. It is incredible how many people are using the same "standard" passwords. There are many sites, which presents the top of most popular passwords, usually the very weak ones. Check it out, maybe your password is not as unique as you thought until now! 10 Most common passwords:

• 123456
• 111111
• 123123
• qwerty
• password
• password1
• 123321
• abc123
• letmein
• 123456789

3. Attacking. There are two ways of attacking:

• a brute force attack. The main idea of this method is to try every thinkable combination of letters, numbers and symbols in order to guess the password. Obviously, doing it manually takes too much time, but there is a bunch of password guessing and hacking programmes, which shouldn't be underestimated.
• a dictionary attack. This method is a little bit more intelligent than the previous one, because primarily checks if your password can be found in dictionaries. It means that with a help of various software tools, hacker tries every word in your national and foreign language dictionaries, until your password is found. Moreover, the list of the most popular passwords is also tried.

If Your Password Gets Stolen Anyway...

Unfortunately, even the strong and memorable passwords sometimes can be hacked or stolen. This, for example, might happen when someone breaks into the system that stores it. Therefore it is very important to notice any suspicious activities as soon as possible, because then you might be still able to inform the authorities or block your online account before something bad happens.

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