Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”

Excerpt: "In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars deputy editor and a self-admitted newbie to password cracking, downloaded a list of more than 16,000 cryptographically hashed passcodes. Within a few hours, he deciphered almost half of them."

More here: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/how-crackers-make-minced-meat-out-of-your-passwords/

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