odds are that the keys to your car or your house are never too far from your
site since having them stolen would mean breaking a window to get back in or
calling a lockout service at best or I
guess there's the worst case scenario of having someone be able to go into your
house rifle through all your stuff and drive off in your VW bus or whatever it
is you use to get around fortunately keeping track of a single physical key
or a few on a keychain isn't too hard hard but online passwords can be a
little bit trickier to manage as the fact that many users have tons of them
to keep track of and the fact that they're stored on a bunch of servers
somewhere instead of being a physical thing you carry around in your pocket
gives Mis creant more opportunities to pry into your online life but how
exactly do passwords get stolen I mean
they're supposed to be encrypted right
well yes but you might be surprised to know that many times passwords aren't
stolen by some crack group of cyber
criminals using super fancy hacking techniques but are instead harvested
through social engineering methods where the bad guys will straight up ask for
someone else's password this usually takes the form of a fishing attempt
where some Mal content will send you an email or a steam message that claims to
be from your ISP or your bank or valve
asking you to send your login credentials for some vague security
related reason there's a similar concept too called tab napping where you will
actually get redirected to a fake website that's built to look as much
like the real thing as possible where
you well enter your login information because the page looks official even if
you're techsavvy or smart enough to realize what's going on when you see a
fishing attempt it's actually still quite easy to inadvertently click links
in scam emails or dodgy websites that
install key loggers onto your system and send everything you type including
passwords back to an attacker that's how I got nabbed key loggers don't require a
whole lot of technical expertise to use making them a popular choice for amateur
online thieves and then once someone
unscrupulous has your usern name and password combo it's quite easy for them
to use automated tools that will try your credentials on lots of different
websites and since statistics have shown us that over half of all internet users
reuse the same password on multiple sites there is a distinct possibility
that if your password for one site is stolen your other accounts could be
compromised as well but let's suppose you're quite careful about fishing and
susp icious links and you use a unique password for every site exactly how safe
are you well if an attacker exploits
vulnerabilities in a server security and is able to find encrypted passwords they
could break the encryption if it's not sufficiently strong or if the password
themselves aren't very long a common way
that password dumps that leak your credentials to the entire internet can
happen even a mid-range modern home
computer can guess millions of passwords per second and billions if it uses a
discrete graphics card meaning that many passwords can be cracked within just a
few days or even hours if you're using commonly used words or phrases but you
obviously don't have much control over how the sites that you use store your
passwords so we're planning a follow-up video coming soon on what you can do to
make your own passwords as secure as possible and keep PR eyes away from your
stuff spoiler alert passwords like querty and 1 2 3 4 56 are terrible ideas
and yet they're used all too often and are very easy for attackers to guess so
maybe don't put those questionable conversations you had with your ex
behind a password that week and with all
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