Use phrases instead of words that are easy to guess.
Use phrases, not words – believe it or not, hackers probably know your birthdate or your mom’s name already, therefore using them is like serving your password on a silver platter.To kick off the year right, here are a few tips on how you can secure your passwords right:
With the recent hack attacks such as Sony, and the iCloud celebrity hack, users should rethink their security and start paying attention to regularly keeping their cloud data in check. As such, managing them, no matter how tedious it is, should be done more than ever, especially now that passwords, including passphrases can be brute forced. Passwords are an important security aspect on everyone’s digital life. Fortunately, Apple was fast to act and shut down the hacking tool.Īpple’s security has taken a beating for last year’s iCloud celebrity leak, however, users still continue to use weak passwords despite countless warnings.
The hacker, known as Pr0x13, claimed that “the bug is painfully obvious and was only a matter of time before it was privately used for malicious or nefarious activities”. iDict used a hole in Apple’s security to guess passwords by way of brute force. Apple’s iCloud service was (reportedly) exploited by a hacker who used iDict, a hacking tool released online on New Year’s Day. Barely a week into the New Year, hackers have already managed to stir news.