Every year a new list of most common passwords is released. You might ask, “where do these come from?”, and that’s a great question. Security firms scour the dark parts of the Internet to find people buying and selling passwords. Based upon these lists, they find the passwords and start organizing them by the number […]
Imagine you log into your Facebook or Instagram account and find that it’s been hacked. Someone learned of your password, and now they have access. Luckily, aside from a few embarrassing posts, there’s not much wrong there. You delete the posts, make a few mea culpas, and people forget about it after a few weeks. […]
A dictionary attack is used by hackers by trying potential passwords from a prearranged list or lists of words and/or known passwords. Typically these lists are derived from a list of common words found in a dictionary (hence the phrase dictionary attack), a list of common non-word passwords (like qwerty, 123456, etc) or a common […]
You might not think about it, and you may not be looking to buy it, but there are those who go out and hack, find, and then sell your information. Among these include your email and passwords. Earlier this year (Jan 2019), on some of the underground forums, a huge collection of passwords and other […]