Hackers can crack most in less than a minute
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 23, 2002 at 12:07:30 AM
Ouch, remember that easy passwords are easy to guess...
Retrieving the password file from one of the health care company's servers, the consulting firm put "John the Ripper," a well-known cracking program, on the case. While well-chosen passwords could take years--if not decades--of computer time to crack, it took the program only an hour to decipher 30 percent of the passwords for the nearly 10,000 accounts listed in the file. [PAGEBREAK]
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Retrieving the password file from one of the health care company's servers, the consulting firm put "John the Ripper," a well-known cracking program, on the case. While well-chosen passwords could take years--if not decades--of computer time to crack, it took the program only an hour to decipher 30 percent of the passwords for the nearly 10,000 accounts listed in the file. [PAGEBREAK]
Read more at News.com