Jul 21, 2023 | Cybersecurity, Working Smarter
Hive Systems, a cybersecurity company located in Richmond, Virginia, conducts a study each year that examines how long it takes hackers to crack a password based on its composition. Obviously the simpler and shorter it is, the easier it is to crack. The longer and...
Aug 14, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Working Smarter
All of us are probably currently using passwords that hackers would love if they ran across them. If you use the internet at all, you have multiple passwords to juggle. And, whether it’s business or personal, it’s easy to get lazy, develop bad habits, or fall into the...
May 11, 2022 | Cybersecurity
Passwords are currently a critical part of any cybersecurity effort. But, they’ve always been problematic. In and of themselves passwords can be security risks. Even when they are long and complicated, they can often be broken by sophisticated hacking attacks. They...
Mar 25, 2022 | Cybersecurity, Working Smarter
How safe is your password? How long would it take an experienced hacker to figure it out? Well, that depends, of course, on the strength of your password. It wasn’t too many years ago when super-easy-to-figure-out passwords were the rule of the day. In an effort to...
