Think your passwords are secure? Think again
Understanding the password-cracking techniques hackers use to blow your online accounts wide open is a great way to ensure it never happens to you.
You will certainly always need to change your password, and sometimes more urgently than you think, but mitigating against theft is a great way to stay on top of your account security. You can always head to www.haveibeenpwned.com to check if you're at risk but simply thinking your password is secure enough to not be hacked into, is a bad mindset to have.
So, to help you understand just how hackers get your passwords – secure or otherwise – we've put together a list of the top ten password-cracking techniques used by hackers. Some of the below methods are certainly outdated, but that doesn't mean they aren't still being used. Read carefully and learn what to mitigate against.
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