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  2. How Hackers Are Using AI To Steal Your Bank Account Password

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    A strong password significantly decreases the likelihood of becoming a hacker’s next victim. It should look like “ejYB%7&^4@0*52@N4Hqm#” instead of “happyjoy111.” But it is not just the ...

  3. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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    The ability to crack passwords using computer programs is also a function of the number of possible passwords per second which can be checked. If a hash of the target password is available to the attacker, this number can be in the billions or trillions per second, since an offline attack is possible.

  4. From passwords to medical records,10 things to never say to ...

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    10 things not to say to AI. Passwords or login credentials: A major privacy mistake. If someone gets access, they can take over your accounts in seconds. Your name, address, ...

  5. Brute-force attack - Wikipedia

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    When password-guessing, this method is very fast when used to check all short passwords, but for longer passwords other methods such as the dictionary attack are used because a brute-force search takes too long. Longer passwords, passphrases and keys have more possible values, making them exponentially more difficult to crack than shorter ones ...

  6. Pass the hash - Wikipedia

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    If an attacker has the hashes of a user's password, they do not need the cleartext password; they can simply use the hash to authenticate with a server and impersonate that user. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In other words, from an attacker's perspective, hashes are functionally equivalent to the original passwords that they were generated from.

  7. Heat from fingertips can be used to crack passwords ... - AOL

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  8. Credential stuffing - Wikipedia

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    Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack in which the attacker collects stolen account credentials, typically consisting of lists of usernames or email addresses and the corresponding passwords (often from a data breach), and then uses the credentials to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on other systems through large-scale automated login requests directed against a web ...

  9. Find and remove unusual activity on your AOL account

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    If you see something you don't recognize, click Sign out or Remove next to it, then immediately change your password. • Recent activity - Devices or browsers that recently signed in. • Apps connected to your account - Apps you've given permission to access your info. • Recent account changes - Shows the last 3