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“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

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“DIGITAL GARLIC” SCARES AWAY HACKERS

Time Management for Hackers

Attackers don’t bother brute-forcing passwords that are long or passwords that contain special characters.

Every one of us — hackers included — only have 24 hours in every day. So how do criminal hackers make the best use of their time when brute-forcing passwords?

Microsoft researcher Ross Bevington analyzed the usernames and passwords hackers entered from over 25 million brute-force attacks.

Here's the breakdown of 30 days' worth of attacks against passwords:

➡️​ 6% attacked passwords over 10 characters in length.
➡️​ 7% attacked passwords which included special characters.
➡️​ 39% attacked passwords with numbers in them.
➡️​ 0% attacked passwords with spaces.

Hackers definitely *stayed away* from passwords which were longer (94% of the time), and they *didn't bother* spending much time cracking passwords which contained special characters (only 7% of the time).

Probably because of the common use of numbers at the end of passwords, hackers definitely honed in on digits.

But hackers *didn't even attempt* brute-forcing passwords with spaces, most likely because including spaces in passwords is still fairly uncommon.

From the article written by Catalin Cimpanu:

"The researchers' findings suggest that longer passwords that include special characters are most likely safe from the vast majority of brute-force attacks, as long as they haven't been leaked online and are part of attackers' brute-forcing dictionaries."

Should we include special characters (including spaces) in our passwords?

Here we have high-quality evidence collected by Microsoft at scale. It shows decisively that password length and the inclusion of special characters act like digital garlic, keeping the vampires and werewolves at bay — keeping the bad guys away from our online accounts.

How do ordinary consumers get this “digital garlic” in an easy way? They use a Password Manager.

https://therecord.media/attackers-dont-bother-brute-forcing-long-passwords-microsoft-engineer-says/

#Passwords
#PasswordManagers
#ComplexPasswords
#SpecialCharactersInPasswords
#TimeManagementForHackers
#DigitalGarlic
#Microsoft

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