The experiment showed that hackers can crack the 90% of passwords, including complex 16-character

During the experiment, conducted at a certain IT-resource «Ars Technica», hackers managed to crack the 90% of the proposed 16,449-year-random passwords, with every minute to hack about six passvord. Thus, a team of hackers managed to crack the 14,800 passwords, most of which were simple and easy to be "guessed" computing cluster, but there were also the so-called complex passwords consisting of 16 characters, using both numbers and letters, such as " qeadzcwrsfxv1331 », but also on their attackers took less than an hour.



Hackers from the «Ars Technica» told how they managed to achieve this result: they are not picked up any combinations and just downloaded a list of the network hash passwords. Hashing - a conversion of certain information by a mathematical algorithm to the bit line. In practice, it looks like this: you enter a password in a special form on the site, the system makes it to the hash, pre-encrypted; when you try to log in again on this resource, the system refers to the hash code, and if you entered the data coincide with the data stored in it, you enter the site. Many experts in the field of computer security thought that hash codes are not dangerous, because the information in them is encrypted, and access to it is not so simple. However, as this experiment, nothing is impossible.

via factroom.ru