Looking at all the common passwords, Home Security Heroes found that 81% of them could be cracked in less than a month, 71% in less than a day, 65% in less than an hour, and 51% in less than a ...

Other password hacking techniques Brute force is just one of many methods hackers use to crack passwords, which is why it’s so important to use a different long password for each of your online ...

The Data Doctors’ Ken Colburn walks you through common techniques hackers use to crack passwords, and how you can protect yourself.

In fact, more than 2.5 million people this year used “123456” as their password, which took less than one second to crack and was exposed nearly 24 million times.

To crack WEP, you'll need to launch Konsole, BackTrack's built-in command line. It's right there on the taskbar in the lower left corner, second button to the right. Now, the commands. First run ...