I just read the `make you password hacker proof`how does someone figure out a password?

Question

it said that password could be figured out in seconds.how? do they have some program that tries every possible combo? please answer.

Answer 1

Yes, it is called "brute force hacking" there are some sites that will use a random generator to give you passwords and they are harder to break. These are complicated passwords and hard to remember but safer than what you may come up with yourself.

Answer 2

well do you get the farts often and have a nickname like "the bean" and your car tag is zzb613. Then you go stz3naz1 and you remember because it is the last 2 letters of farts backwards, the first and last character of your car license tag and the last two letters of bean backwards and ends with the 2nd and next to last characters of your car tag. This gives you an 8 character combination of letters and numbers that are easy for you to remember and almost impossible for anyone to figure. 8 is the minimum characters for a good password.

Only the government can crack one that fast and then the computer must go to FBI or CIA headquarters to do that. Others can run algorithms until they hit the right combination which could happen in seconds and up to years. Why they persist in the need for password considered uncrackable. If you have that need, your job assigns password by computer random generator and you can not possibly remember it &&&& they want to change it every two weeks so you write it down and tape it in your top desk drawer ==== overkill. Winner of the what a crock award for this week = paranoia anyone.

Answer 3

Yes they have these "Brute Force"programs that tries every single possible combination of password. for example lets sat a password had 10 digits: 0000000000, the brute force program would try every single possible combination all the way till 9999999999. Get it? However brute force programs can take along time to figure out a password depending how long the password is, but there are always faster ways to hack a password.

Answer 4

It is amazing that most people use their wife, kid, husband, dog, cat, birthday, social security number, etc., as passwords. How hard would that be to figure out? Crackers (not hackers) do have sophisticated software that can crack passwords, but the chances of them going after your home computer are slim and none and slim is out of town. Crackers go after credit card companies, telephone companies, cell phone companies. They are looking for things to steal that will make them a lot of money. Are they going to get that from your computer? Nah.

Make your password "hacker-proof" by not doing the obvious. Use an alpha-numeric password of at least 8-10 letters and numbers, nothing repeated and using both upper and lower case letters. Then DON'T FORGET IT.

Answer 5

As the article states it is done with special software. It does try all possible combinations and does it very fast.


How are passwords cracked, anyway? Primarily through brute force "dictionary" attacks, where software tries to guess a password by running through a series of common phrases or words in various combinations.