To be cryptic and ironic all at once, maybe you even avoid making your password the same numbers as your birthdate and instead make it just ‘birthdate’.
A website shows that some passwords can be cracked by hackers in mere milliseconds.
The Better Buys website states that, because so many people are now having their personal information accessed by computer hackers, they decided to analyse which passwords were the least and most safe.
“To get started, we set out to discover just how quickly a seasoned cracker could ‘brute-force’ various types of passwords (systematically check combinations until finding the correct one) based on factors such as length and character types,” the website states.
After crunching these numbers, they have created an interactive feature which allows you to type in a password and then see how long it is estimated it would take a hacker to crack it.
It shows that if you are dim enough to use a code like ‘password’ it will be hacked within just 0.25 Milliseconds, which is the same amount of time it would take to crack ‘birthday’.
Let’s say you’re a political junkie and decided to use the Prime Minister’s name as your password? Well, I have good news for you: the website says it would take 4043 millenia (a really long time) for a hacker to crack the password ‘malcolmturnbull’.
Add in 2016 on the end of that password, to give it some time-relevance, and the predicted time blows out to the point of ‘infinity’.
That is one of the tips to pick up from this interactive feature – add numbers to a password to make it much more secure. While ‘password’ takes just 0.25 milliseconds to crack, ‘password69’ would hold up for more than eight years.
This post was written by: Raymond Jack
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