Artificial intelligence (AI) can be exploited in popular password detectors with an astonishing speed of return results.
Passwords are used to protect all kinds of electronic data of users, from bank accounts, social networks, and websites to applications. However, many people tend to let their guard down, setting passwords that are easy to remember, guess or duplicate between accounts. This thinking may have to change when artificial intelligence tools take less than a minute to figure out popular passwords. today’s
based “guess password” platform PassGAN, an AI- successfully found 51% of popular passwords in under 60 seconds, doing the same thing with 65% in 1 hour and 71% of results in no more than 1 day. Within a period of 1 month, the program found about 81% of passwords. Research results using PassGAN show that about 15.6 million passwords have been detected by this tool
Thanks to artificial intelligence, PassGAN can automatically learn the formation and layout of real passwords from account data leaks.
based detection platforms To protect yourself against AI- like PassGAN, the first thing users need to do is avoid setting common, easy-to-guess passwords. At the very least, create a string that is 12 characters long, using a combination of lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and special characters. A sequence of 12 numbers in a row can be broken in less than 25 seconds, but combining uppercase and lowercase will take 289 years to figure out. Adding special characters and numbers to the password sequence could take AI (at the moment) up to 30,000 years to find the result.
Similarly, a regular 18-character password will be “safe” against AI for 22 million years, but adding capital letters will last up to 7.23 billion years, according to results from Home Security Heroes – a website using The algorithm to predict how long it will take to get a password.
Another protection option is to use 2-factor authentication (2FA). This way, when there is a login from an unknown device, the system will send a one-time use code to the account holder’s phone and only allow access when the correct data is entered. Users should also not set the same password for different accounts.
If possible, use a tool that automatically generates passwords and updates them regularly, especially for bank accounts or financial applications. Experts also recommend not logging into these programs when using public Wi-Fi networks
