AI can crack your password in seconds! Do this to save yourself
Photo Credit: Unsplash The latest study shows how fast AI can crack your password. Are your passwords in danger? Yes, of course.
Photo Credit: Unsplash With the advancement in technology, having simple passwords is asking for trouble.
Photo Credit: Pexels Now, with AI coming in, hackers will find it even easier to crack your passwords no matter how tough they are.
Photo Credit: Pexels The latest study by Home Security Heroes has shown the scary side of AI- it can crack passwords within seconds.
Photo Credit: Pexels After employing PassGAN (password-generative adversarial network), the company processed a list of more than 15,000,000 passwords from the RockYou dataset.
Photo Credit: Pexels The study showed the shocking results that in under a minute, over half (51%) of all frequently used passwords can be successfully decoded by AI.
Photo Credit: Pixabay While 65% of common passwords can be cracked in less than an hour.
Photo Credit: Pixabay In less than a day, 71% of passwords can be compromised, and in less than a month, 81% can be cracked.
Photo Credit: Unsplash The study says that it takes PassGAN less than 6 minutes to crack any kind of 7-character password, even if it contains symbols.
Photo Credit: Unsplash Is there any way to keep yourself safe? Well, every problem has a solution!
Photo Credit: Unsplash Passwords with more than 18 characters are generally safe against AI password crackers.
Photo Credit: Unsplash A 10-character strong password using letters, symbols, and numbers would take five years to decipher by an AI.
Photo Credit: Pixabay Some tips: Use at least 15 characters including at least two upper and lower-case letters, plus, numbers, and symbols in your password.
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