A recent study has inflamed the old conversation about password length: Using an AI powered password cracker, 71% of commonly used passwords can be hacked within a day. It’s a new take on Brute Force attacks (a technique simply trying every possible combination of numbers and letters): Feed 15 million passwords from past hacks into an AI box and it will have a very good understanding of what commonly used passwords and combinations are. Thus speeding up the “guessing” astronomically. 18+ characters and numbers are the new baseline, which means your business must implement:
Complex passwords or passphrases with 18+ characters and numbers
Because you can’t remember those, implement a password management system
Enable multifactor authentication across the board
Enforce password changes by software or policy every 6 to 12 months
Remove access for employees that have left
Train employees about risks associated with password sharing (or writing them on post it notes…)
Your business is defined in the cyber space by means of access to 6 to 10 master platforms (files, email, phones, domains & web, backup, network, etc). Guard them like the keys to your kingdom, because that is what they are.
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A recent study has inflamed the old conversation about password length: Using an AI powered password cracker, 71% of commonly used passwords can be hacked within a day. It’s a new take on Brute Force attacks (a technique simply trying every
possible combination of numbers and letters): Feed 15 million passwords from
past hacks into an AI box and it will have a very good understanding of what commonly used passwords and combinations are. Thus speeding up the “guessing”
astronomically. 18+ characters and numbers are the new baseline, which means
your business must implement:
Your business is defined in the cyber space by means of access to 6 to 10 master
platforms (files, email, phones, domains & web, backup, network, etc). Guard them like the keys to your kingdom, because that is what they are.
Link toarticle: AI can crack half of common passwords in less than a minute | Cybernews
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