Sunday, 2 October 2016

 Hacking tool? New Microsoft tool ‘guesses’ online passwords

As a good way of displaying the hazards of using feeble passwords, a recent web tool has the ability to deduce your password sooner than you can type it.

Just as “Telepathwords” is able to guess your password based only on the final character of password string, it is very much possible that a hacker can do the same.

Telepathwords is an element of a much bigger program that is being worked on by the research arm of Microsoft in association with Carnegie Mellon University. The intention of the endeavour is to alert web users and discourage them from taking shortcuts while constructing online passwords.

A company might have a great firewall or a robust security system; but if its customers persist on using easy to guess passwords such as “password” or “123456” these safety measures come to no use.

To test how you fare at staying away from possible password hacks, all you have to do is log on tohttp://ift.tt/IG7zqJand type the initial character of the password that you like to test. With just a solitary character, number, or symbol to bank on, Telepathwords tries to guess the subsequent character. This is done by exploring databases of well-known passwords that have been exposed by safety infringements and familiar phrases and words.




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