A password’s strength is determined by the amount of chances it would take on average to guess it. This is usually measured in terms of entropy. The more entropy, the more guesses it would take to crack a given password, the more secure the password. But it’s not so simple! With modern machine learning practices,
Author: Connor Peters
With the security industry moving towards passkeys, the intrinsic benefits of a strong password have become more apparent to me. There’s a simple beauty to a password in that the only place it’s stored is in your brain. You don’t have to maintain possession of a device, it doesn’t rely on any specialized interfaces, and
The sole reason phishing is still so prevalent today is that anyone can email you. Unsolicited email is a giant security hole that is the root cause of something like 90% of hacks. It’s similar in nature to the single policy that enabled 9/11: pilots were instructed to allow anyone who threatened into the plane’s
Thanks to the unfortunate reality of massive data breaches, cybersecurity researchers now have access to billions of real-world passwords. Analyzing these credentials provides a sobering look at what the average user password actually looks like, and the results are startling. The truth is the vast majority of them are critically weak. The Average Password Has
Getting locked out of an online account is the 21st century equivalent to being wrongfully jailed. This might sound like hyperbole, but the people I’ve talked to who have gotten completely locked out of critical accounts such as their Facebook for business would agree. In today’s digital world, losing access to our online accounts can
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network”. It’s a service that encrypts the data you send over the Internet and changes your IP address to make it look like you’re located somewhere else. This is useful because having your data encrypted makes it impossible for hackers to see what you’re doing online. However, nowadays almost all
Here are 4 quick things you can do to contain the damage and prevent others from getting hacked: Change your password! You also need to change the password for all other accounts where you’ve reused that password or a variation. Start the account recovery process. This is different for every website so you’ll need to
Unfortunately, people nowadays think that you need to have all kinds of weird symbols and numbers in your password to make it secure. This isn’t the case! Despite the many websites that require you to have symbols and numbers, it’s often more secure to have an all lowercase password, as long as it is 16 characters
Phishing is an attack used by hackers where they try to gain access to your account by tricking you into clicking on a malicious link sent in an email, text message, or social media message. Phishing messages are designed to look important and legitimate to convince you to click on them. They’re often phony password