Passwords in the wild: What kind of passwords do people use, and how do we crack them?
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Ron Bowes talks about password security: „Recent years have been a golden age for password research; between breaches of Rockyou, MySpace, PHPBB, Carders.cc (which is currently unreleased) and countless other sites, tens of millions of passwords, both plaintext and hashed, have been released onto the Internet. In-depth analysis of these breaches provides valuable insight into the psychology of users, and a clear understanding how they were lost, found, and cracked will help protect you from suffering the same loss. We will also look at how the passwords were cracked; from old techniques like bruteforce to new techniques like Markov chains, from intelligence to raw horsepower, and from leaked password lists to exposed Facebook names, what is the ideal way to crack passwords? And, with these techniques in hand, what does this mean for security professionals?„
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