Most Used Password Cracking Techniques

Passwords are the most widely used way to secure information and a platform is considered safe to the level of its weakest point users are constantly being educated about making harder or unpredictable passwords as well as one-time passwords or with the introduction of biometrics and password-less account that send a notification to the user’s electronic device the average user habits have not changed but with the introduction of new technology password cracking techniques have changed in this paper we take a look at the widest used password cracking methods Phishing, Malware, Social engineering, Brute force attack, Dictionary attack we also take a look at how these methods have evolved and also how GPU have affected Brute force and Dictionary attack and the number of losses due to password cracking and also where they are used and for what cause are they used and also the problem with using hashing to store password Keywords password cracking, GPU, Brute force attacks, Dictionary attacks, Hashing, link guard algorithm, ben Clark algorithm