August 3, 2017 08:59 am PDT
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Download 306,000,000 cracked passwords and make sure you're not using one of them
Troy Hunt, proprietor of the Have I Been Pwned? service, has made 306,000,000 known-cracked passwords available as a download -- you can grab the set and make sure that yours isn't among them, as these cracked passwords are the ones that are likely being used by hackers when they do brute-force attacks against encrypted password files. (more…)
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