Here’s How to Prevent AI From Cracking Your Password

 

The world has begun to explore the powers of artificial intelligence and what it can accomplish with a little help. While some individuals are worried about AI, others are eager to discover novel techniques that they can benefit from. 

Though AI offers countless benefits, it also has certain disadvantages. Concerns have been raised in recent months regarding AI and how it may jeopardise people’s cybersecurity. 

A study conducted earlier this year by Home Security Heroes discovered that artificial intelligence (AI) can crack over 50% of regularly used passwords in less than a minute. The study used an AI password cracker called PassGAN to examine a dataset of 15,680,000 passwords, indicating that over 51% of common passwords can be cracked in less than a minute and 66% of passwords can be cracked in less than an hour. 

While AI can guess your password in less than a minute, it should be highlighted that this is only feasible if you choose easy to predict and generic passwords with short character lengths. For example, your p

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