Posts tagged “passwords”
More on password security
An excellent hypothetical scenario that underscores just how important it is to use different strong passwords for everything: You have email account x@y.com, which is your main email. You have the password XYZ, which you use for everything. You register at paypal with your email address x@y.com and use your normal password. You then register [...]
My password is bigger than your password
My password is bigger than your password. And that’s a good thing. According to researchers at Georgia Tech, GPU-accelerated brute-force password cracking techiques are getting really good: “Right now we can confidently say that a seven-character password is hopelessly inadequate,” said Mr [Richard] Boyd, “and as GPU power continues to go up every year, the [...]