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2. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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   The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password (due to the fact that installing an entirely new password would involve System Administration privileges), to gain unauthorized access to a system, or to act as a preventive measure whereby system administrators check for easily crackable passwords. On a file ...

3. 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 ...

4. Crack (password software) - Wikipedia

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   The first public release of Crack was version 2.7a, which was posted to the Usenet newsgroups alt.sources and alt.security on 15 July 1991. Crack v3.2a+fcrypt, posted to comp.sources.misc on 23 August 1991, introduced an optimised version of the Unix crypt() function but was still only really a faster version of what was already available in other packages.

5. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account

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   Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated. 5. Check to make sure your recovery options are up-to-date. 6. Consider enabling two-step verification to add an extra layer of security to your account.

6. 7 ways to protect yourself from getting hacked - AOL

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   For a more secure password, you should avoid using obvious choices, such as names, locations, dates, phone numbers, birthdays, addresses, etc., since these are easy for hackers to guess. Tip #2 ...

7. 7 ways to protect yourself from getting hacked - AOL

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   Find out what the term 'hacking' actually means — and what you can do to protect yourself from being hacked online.