Re: Have I been hacked?
On 1/9/2015 11:19 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> On Sex, 09 Jan 2015, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> SSH passwords are very safe, if they are long enough. For instance, if
>> you have a 10 character password, mixed case and numbers (no special
>> characters), a brute force attack of 100 attempts per second would take
>> almost 266 million years to cover all possibilities. 11 characters
>> would take over 16 billion years - longer than the life of the universe.
>
> If the characters are random, that is.
>
That's just good security practice.
> The problem is that passwords are often not really random. So even
> seemingly secure passwords may be guessed relatively easy. This article
> gives a good overwiew about this topic:
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/
>
>
If you don't follow good security practices, it's your own fault if you
get hacked.
Jerry
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