Brute force attacks on peoples passwords is a method in which people use hacking tools to attempt to access your private data by attempting thousands of combinations of words and letters every minute until they get the right one.
This can then be used to encrypt your data for ransomeware purposes, get your banking information, or just get general personal info on you that you don’t want these people to have.
Depending on how complex your password is this can take anything from seconds to years to achieve and outlines how important it is to have a strong secure password.
In this blog post we are going to outline some good password practises and how best to protect yourself, but before we get to that we’d like to firstly outline a great website you can use to check how long it would take a brute force attack to learn your password.
https://howsecureismypassword.net/
If you go to the site above and type in one of your passwords you’ll be able to see the time needed to brute force guess it. The site is totally safe to use as none of your data is sent anywhere.
Below is a screen shot taken of a password we put into the site. As you can see we’re pretty happy with it as it would take around 4 hundred years to crack.