Here are the ways to protect your password
Follow these ways to protect your password from hackers’ attempts using Artificial Intelligence or AI password cracking.
AI has been part of the modern-day lives of many people around the globe. It can make life easier as gadgets and appliances feature AI technology.
However, there are also disadvantages. AI can be used by hackers to crack another person’s password on social media and other digital accounts.
Based on the article in Reader’s Digest, Ameer Al-Nemrat, PhD, an expert in information security and computer forensics at the University of East London, said that in recent years, there has been a significant rise of the use of AI but “disturbingly,” among the applications of AI is “password guessing techniques designed to evade detection.”
With AI, hackers can automate tasks and enhance tools. as well as evade detection. It takes a different amount of time to detect one’s password depending on the length and complexity.
“The concern now is if a person’s passphrase can be determined by machine learning from their social media and other postings, then that phrase can become compromised,” Rahul Mahna, managing director at EisnerAmper’s Outsourced IT Services team said.
So in order to protect your password, Manha pointed out diversity as one way to mitigate the risk. He suggests having a unique password for each website, device, or service. Password managers can help you with this.
It is also advisable to have long passwords that include lower and uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols. In short, something that is not easily understood.
Manha also said that posting too much information on social media is not a good idea for one’s privacy and can affect one’s security.
“Using this as a reality, AI will learn at a much quicker rate of such occurrences and be able to better time an intrusion, and possibly discover passwords or gaps and attempt logins during a vulnerable period—even potentially disabling security measures like multi-factor authentication,” he said.
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