Cyber security researcher Robert David Graham found the published file from the Stratfor hack and used password-cracking tool oclHashtcat to crack the password over the weekend.

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Such a combination is easily guessed, and can even be programmatically accounted for in a password cracking application.

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Posts to some password cracking forums indicated that as many as 300, 000 of the passwords may have already been deciphered.

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That essentially eliminates the risk of password cracking.

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Along with boosts in speed and thoroughness of its password guessing, Marlinspike says CloudCracker will now also offer APIs that mean developers could build applications that use its password cracking resources within other programs, or even on mobile devices with an Android or iPhone app.

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Avoid using actual words, because password-cracking software can run through the entire dictionary in less than a minute.

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But if Broadwell had, anyone with a password-cracking tool might have been able to snoop on her e-mails and discover her dalliance with a four-star general.

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We were able to crack the VNC password by using a VNC Cracking Tool.

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