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Imagine you are a hacker suddenly faced with an insurmountable technical challenge: Your target’s email server has been well configured, its publicly known vulnerabilities have been eliminated and an as-yet undisclosed vulnerability is either unobtainable or much too expensive. Do you give up? No, you just ask for the password.
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The actual speed at which passwords can be cracked depends on whether the cracking takes place locally or remotely, the latter being significantly slower. The technical characteristics of the security system – the hashing algorithm – also make a difference.
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Neumann, L. (2017). Human Factors in IT Security. In: Abolhassan, F. (eds) Cyber Security. Simply. Make it Happen.. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46529-6_9
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