Increase Your Password Security, Know How To Make It Secure


The use of passwords in today's time has increased a lot. Users use passwords for the security of their phones, email, online banking & social media accounts. Users are trying to keep passwords tough and difficult so that it cannot be easy to brake.

Most websites advise users to have a password of at least 8 characters, which is a combination of upper case, lower case, numbers & special characters. For many years it has been believed that such passwords are the safest and it is very difficult to break them. If you also feel safe using these types of passwords, then now you need to be alert. A recent research has revealed that such passwords of users can be broken in less than 2 & a half hours. That is, the passwords that users considered as their security guarantee are no longer of any use.

8 character password cracked easily

  1. A few days ago a password recovery tool named Hash cat, presented a sample of password cracking, showing how the 8 character Windows NTLM password hash can be broken in less than 2 & a half hours.

  2. A Cyber ​​Security Expert linked to this project tweeted the information about 'Custom Password Cracking Build' by tweeting. During an offline attack, Beta version of HashCat 6.0.0 and Nvdia GTX 2080Ti GPUs were used during the test.

  3. On the one hand, sites like Google & Microsoft ask for 8 character passwords while Facebook and Twitter ask its users to keep only 6 characters passwords.

  4. Using the Capital Letter and Special Character, users have difficulty in remembering passwords. For this reason, they consider it easy to keep simple passwords. This can prove to be the biggest mistake of the users.

Password must be atleast 20 characters

  1. Researcher Tinker advised users that they should use 5 different words to keep their passwords safe. Simultaneously add all those words together (e.g. mobilecarbuildingnews).
  2. You should try that after adding all these words your password will be at least 20 characters.

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