In the security category, users might want to take note and upgrade their passwords. Researchers are cracking measly character codes.
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology used a cluster of graphics cards and brute force attacks to penetrate an eight-character long password string, in just two hours.
But when their method went up against a 12-character password, it fell flat. Actually it will take 17,134 years to crack it. 11-character passwords take 180 years to crack.
The report offers users to come up with complex structure possibly a sentence with numbers and symbols but don't use logical English words because they can be cracked with dictionary hacking programs.
Need a stronger password?
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