Most Common Password Vulnerabilities You Should Know About
We often talk about the importance of keeping our password secure and incorporate various practices to do so but still one must take into consideration that cybercriminals are only a few steps away from stealing it. We often see a someone’s computer or smartphone getting hacked because someone got access to a user’s passwords. In extreme cases, there is not much to do, but it is important for you to know the common methods currently used by hackers to discover and steal the passwords. In this way, you can have a much better sense of how to defend yourself and avoid such situations.
As per a notice posted by Flipboard in the last month, the news aggregation channel had been hacked not once but twice within a span of past one year. This incident had put at risk the passwords of about 150 million users. Although, it wasn’t made clear as to how many users were affected by this breach.
Key methods of cyber attacks which make your password vulnerable are described below. Also, it is mentioned as to how do they work and what precautions are required to obstruct cybercriminals from gaining access to your password.
5 Most Common Password Vulnerabilities
Password Vulnerability due to Phishing
This type of attack causes victims to believe they are accessing legitimate content, usually e-mail or websites, when in fact they are accessing fake content produced by the attackers.
This type of content usually leads victims to fill in existing login and password data from other legitimate sites or services, such as Google and Facebook, which when filled in, allows the attacker to store the passwords before redirecting the victims to a legitimate site.
How to avoid:
Attackers often copy the image of sites almost perfectly, that are looking to steal passwords. But there are a few important items which cannot be copied, such as the site addresses and the links within it. Always check the links to make sure they belong to the desired location.
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