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Most Common Password Vulnerabilities You Should Know About

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...