Enhance your password security to the maximum level so that u can never be hacked... Here are few password cracking methods and security measures..
1. Social Engineering -> To protect yourself from social engineering you must learn to question the possible attacker. If you get a phone call from someone, and you feel that he/she may be fraud, then just ask him/her the legitimate questions. Some professional social engineers study the company before attacking, so they might know all the answers. That’s why, if you still have some doubts, you should ask the head of whatever department the attacker is from to find out if he is legit.
2.Shoulder Surfing -> When you type in your password make sure there is no one behind you attempting to look at your password. If someone is watching you typing password just kick him in the face. Just joking. Be aware of them. Don't keep notes as a hint for your password.
3. Guessing -> To prevent yourself from this attack, never use a password like your birth date, your phone no., your girlfriend's name, your pet's name, your spouse’s name, or anything that someone may be able to guess. Try to keep it long with Uppercase, lowercase, number and symbols. Like :- Don@8guessm!passworD
4. Dictionary Attacks -> Dictionary attacks are very simple to prevent. Don’t use a password that is in the dictionary. Don't ever try to use password from dictionary in other form like H4ck3r which is "Hacker". This is detectable by Dictionary attack. Use a long phrase which is easily undetectable.
Other attacks and Security measures,
5. Brute-force attacks -> Brute-force attacks may be prevented by creating a very long password and using many numbers and odd characters. The longer the password the longer it takes for the hacker to crack your password. If after a few days the hacker hasn’t been able to crack your password through a brute-force attack, then he is very likely to just give up. Keeping a long phrase is the best password for you. Like "Whenwasiborn1990"
5. Rainbow Tables -> You can avoid rainbow table cracking by simply making your password extremely long. Creating tables for passwords that are long takes a very long time and a lot of resources. That is why there aren’t many of these tables available.
6. Phishing -> Phishing attacks are very simple to avoid. When you are asked to put your personal information into a website, look up into the URL bar. If for example you are supposed to be on Gmail.com and in the URL bar it says something completely different like gmail.random.com, or gamailmail.com, then you know this is a fake. When you are on the real Gmail website, the URL should begin with www.google.com anything else is a fake.
1. Social Engineering -> To protect yourself from social engineering you must learn to question the possible attacker. If you get a phone call from someone, and you feel that he/she may be fraud, then just ask him/her the legitimate questions. Some professional social engineers study the company before attacking, so they might know all the answers. That’s why, if you still have some doubts, you should ask the head of whatever department the attacker is from to find out if he is legit.
2.Shoulder Surfing -> When you type in your password make sure there is no one behind you attempting to look at your password. If someone is watching you typing password just kick him in the face. Just joking. Be aware of them. Don't keep notes as a hint for your password.
3. Guessing -> To prevent yourself from this attack, never use a password like your birth date, your phone no., your girlfriend's name, your pet's name, your spouse’s name, or anything that someone may be able to guess. Try to keep it long with Uppercase, lowercase, number and symbols. Like :- Don@8guessm!passworD
4. Dictionary Attacks -> Dictionary attacks are very simple to prevent. Don’t use a password that is in the dictionary. Don't ever try to use password from dictionary in other form like H4ck3r which is "Hacker". This is detectable by Dictionary attack. Use a long phrase which is easily undetectable.
Other attacks and Security measures,
5. Brute-force attacks -> Brute-force attacks may be prevented by creating a very long password and using many numbers and odd characters. The longer the password the longer it takes for the hacker to crack your password. If after a few days the hacker hasn’t been able to crack your password through a brute-force attack, then he is very likely to just give up. Keeping a long phrase is the best password for you. Like "Whenwasiborn1990"
5. Rainbow Tables -> You can avoid rainbow table cracking by simply making your password extremely long. Creating tables for passwords that are long takes a very long time and a lot of resources. That is why there aren’t many of these tables available.
6. Phishing -> Phishing attacks are very simple to avoid. When you are asked to put your personal information into a website, look up into the URL bar. If for example you are supposed to be on Gmail.com and in the URL bar it says something completely different like gmail.random.com, or gamailmail.com, then you know this is a fake. When you are on the real Gmail website, the URL should begin with www.google.com anything else is a fake.
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