{"id":448149,"date":"2022-05-17T01:43:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cyber-expert-reveals-the-most-dangerous-password-habits\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T01:43:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T22:43:23","slug":"cyber-expert-reveals-the-most-dangerous-password-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cyber-expert-reveals-the-most-dangerous-password-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"#Cyber expert reveals the most dangerous password habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a410e7cb035e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg 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we\u2019re constantly accessing popular services like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Google\u00a0from our smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Gary De Mercurio, from\u00a0Trustwave SpiderLabs, says there\u2019s good reason why IT managers at work are regularly getting you to change your password.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s because brute force systems can get through a worrying number of combinations in a matter of seconds with the right equipment.<\/p>\n<p>But people make the mistake of being far too predictable with their passwords.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople will have these workarounds,\u201d he told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.helpnetsecurity.com\/2022\/05\/16\/hacked-passwords-video\/\">Help Net Security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would be amazed at how many people have the exact same passwords.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs clever as everyone thinks they are, the person next to you probably has a very similar password.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/dangerous-passwords-04.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Using seasons or birthdays are easy ways for a hacker to crack your password.\" class=\"wp-image-22290470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/dangerous-passwords-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/dangerous-passwords-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/dangerous-passwords-04.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Using seasons or birthdays are easy ways for a hacker to crack your password.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">dpa\/picture alliance via Getty I<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo anytime that it comes to things like seasons, or words like love, dragons, your birthday, your daughters birthday, any kind of dates, 1492, 1776, somebody has already used those, the password\u2019s already been leaked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso company names, the state that you\u2019re or the country that you\u2019re or the last time that your team won a world cup, it\u2019s all out there, there are people out there thinking the same way you are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recommends that people use the alt key on their keyboard to change up the characters to less obvious ones, which make it considerably harder for hackers to crack.<\/p>\n<p>But he warned that cyber security is a constantly moving thing, saying: \u201cWhat\u2019s secure today may not be secure tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally <a 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