How Secure is your password?

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      Published Apr 8, 2016

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      Hacking cases including e-mails and social media accounts are becoming more common nowadays.  Every day, passwords are stolen from about 320,000 Facebook accounts, 70,000 Google-related accounts, 60,000 Yahoo accounts and 22,000 Twitter accounts. The primary reason behind this is most of us have weak passwords. According to the stats, almost 2 million out of 38 million Adobe customers impacted by a breach in Oct 2013 had "123456" as a password. howsecureismypassword.net, as the domain name suggests, is a website which tells you whether your password is strong or weak . All you have to do is go to the website, type in a password and it tells you how long will desktop PC take to crack your password.

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