Friday, September 22, 2017

AI Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier - Slashdot

AI Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier - Slashdot
Image result for hacked"sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine:
The Equifax breach is reason for concern, of course, but if a hacker wants to access your online data by simply guessing your password, you're probably toast in less than an hour. 
Now, there's more bad news: Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to create a program that, combined with existing tools, figured more than a quarter of the passwords from a set of more than 43 million LinkedIn profiles..."
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