At the height of the Artificial intelligence, Just as positive elements are seen, there are others that are simply dangerous. One of the latter is the ability to hack your password.
Researchers used the platform PassGAN AI to see how fast it could crack passwords, using the old widget as a test RockYou.
This was a very popular widget on MySpace and Facebook, experts say de Home Security Heroes. However, it was hacked in 2009, and 32 million passwords were leaked on the dark web.
To conduct their experiment, the researchers they used 15.6 million passwords and entered them into PassGAN AI. This served to train the Artificial Intelligence tool.
As the portal explains Tech Radar, PassGAN AI is a password generator based on the Generative Adversarial Network, which works by creating fake passwords that mimic real ones.
Two neural networks, a generator and a discriminator, make up Artificial Intelligence. The discriminator scans and informs the generator, creating the passwords. The more you train, the more accurate the results will be.
Research results on Artificial Intelligence breaks – password
Home Security Heroes noted that after excluding passwords with less than four characters and with more than 18, 51% of the most common keys could be hacked in less than a minute. “It took less than an hour to hack 65%, one day for 71%, and less than a month for 81%,” the experts said.
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What is the solution to be more protected in the use of passwords? Use one that is at least 15 characters long, with high and low letters, numbers, and symbols.
“A password like that would take 14 billion years to be decoded.” point out the researchers from Home Security Heroes.
In addition, it is necessary change passwords on a regular basis, and? the one used for a certain application is not repeated in another.
