How to get hackedWe live in an era of botnets and data breaches, which has made it more important than ever to use strong passwords. One way to do this is by using a password manager, which creates strong passwords and remembers them for you – but you’ll need a strong password for it. Password cracking becomes almost effortless with a tool like John the Ripper.Similar to the dictionary attack, the brute force attack comes with an added bonus for the hacker. Instead of merely using words, a brute force attack lets them detect non-dictionary words by working through all possible alpha-numeric combinations, from ‘aaa1’ to ‘zzz10’. Register to advertise your products & services on our classifieds website Digger.co.ke and enjoy one month subscription free of charge and 3 free ads on the Standard newspaper.

Source: Standard Digital May 15, 2019 10:18 UTC