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  2. What is a credit card security code? - AOL

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    A credit card security code is a three- or four-digit code that’s unique to your card. In case a merchant asks, the security code goes by a few different names , mainly the: Card Verification ...

  3. Card security code - Wikipedia

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    The card security code is not encoded on the magnetic stripe but is printed flat. American Express cards have a four-digit code printed on the front side of the card above the number. Diners Club, Discover, JCB, Mastercard, and Visa credit and debit cards have a three-digit card security code. The code is the final group of numbers printed on ...

  4. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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    Such a device can crack a 10-letter single-case password in one day. The work can be distributed over many computers for an additional speedup proportional to the number of available computers with comparable GPUs. However some algorithms run slowly, or even are specifically designed to run slowly, on GPUs.

  5. What's a six-digit verification code — and why you should ...

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    Report it. If someone asks you for a verification code, report the conversation to BBB Scam Tracker. If you think someone is impersonating your bank or another organization, contact them using a ...

  6. Software cracking - Wikipedia

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    Software crack illustration. Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software ...

  7. 2-Step Verification with a Security Key - AOL Help

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    A security key is a physical device that gets uniquely associated with your AOL account after you enable it. Each time you sign in with your password, you'll be prompted to approve access to your account using your key. This prevents anyone who doesn't have your security key device from gaining access to your account.

  8. Personal identification number - Wikipedia

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    The device consisted of two keypads, one for the customer and one for the teller. It allowed the customer to type in a secret code, which is transformed by the device, using a microprocessor, into another code for the teller. [16] During a transaction, the customer's account number was read by the card reader. This process replaced manual entry ...

  9. Brute-force attack - Wikipedia

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    Brute-force attacks can be made less effective by obfuscating the data to be encoded making it more difficult for an attacker to recognize when the code has been cracked or by making the attacker do more work to test each guess. One of the measures of the strength of an encryption system is how long it would theoretically take an attacker to ...