How secure is your password?
Lets look at which password combinations are the hardest to guess or crack.
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Secure passwords are difficult to guess by others or be cracked by computers designed for this purpose.
Password ‘cracking’ involves a computer using a brute force attack to try many password combinations until it finds the one that is your password. Simple and commonly used passwords are easily cracked.
So just how easy is it for a password to be cracked?
+Click here to find out
Why so easy?
The increasing amount of personal information we put on social media makes it easier for others to guess our passwords.
Other clues
Some ‘quizzes’ that are distributed on social media are designed to steal passwords or password recovery answers (e.g. questions like ‘What was your first pet’s name?’ and ‘What town did you grow up in?’ are commonly used to help people recover forgotten passwords).
Think about it: What are some passwords you think are commonly used by people?
Come up with a list of a few passwords that you think a lot of people use for their personal passwords. Their pet's name, for example.
Video
Watch the video at the link below. Feel free to FFW to check out different parts of the video. Then, return and complete the activity on the next slide.
Click here
Activity: Put the Passwords to the Test!
Step 1
Step 3
Step 2
Change up the passwords to try to make them harder to hack. For example: chocolatechocolatemilkshakeCh0c0l@t3Ch0c0l@t3M1lksh@k3! See the results
Should you change some of your passwords? If yes, what strategies could you use make them stronger?
Click the link below. On the website, enter each common password your class came up with and see how fast it could be hacked.
+password check
+info
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Week 3: Password Security
Sara Isbell
Created on February 5, 2021
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Transcript
How secure is your password?
Lets look at which password combinations are the hardest to guess or crack.
start >
Secure passwords are difficult to guess by others or be cracked by computers designed for this purpose.
Password ‘cracking’ involves a computer using a brute force attack to try many password combinations until it finds the one that is your password. Simple and commonly used passwords are easily cracked.
So just how easy is it for a password to be cracked?
+Click here to find out
Why so easy?
The increasing amount of personal information we put on social media makes it easier for others to guess our passwords.
Other clues
Some ‘quizzes’ that are distributed on social media are designed to steal passwords or password recovery answers (e.g. questions like ‘What was your first pet’s name?’ and ‘What town did you grow up in?’ are commonly used to help people recover forgotten passwords).
Think about it: What are some passwords you think are commonly used by people?
Come up with a list of a few passwords that you think a lot of people use for their personal passwords. Their pet's name, for example.
Video
Watch the video at the link below. Feel free to FFW to check out different parts of the video. Then, return and complete the activity on the next slide.
Click here
Activity: Put the Passwords to the Test!
Step 1
Step 3
Step 2
Change up the passwords to try to make them harder to hack. For example: chocolatechocolatemilkshakeCh0c0l@t3Ch0c0l@t3M1lksh@k3! See the results
Should you change some of your passwords? If yes, what strategies could you use make them stronger?
Click the link below. On the website, enter each common password your class came up with and see how fast it could be hacked.
+password check
+info
Be Internet Awesome!