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  2. Brute-force attack - Wikipedia

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    When password-guessing, this method is very fast when used to check all short passwords, but for longer passwords other methods such as the dictionary attack are used because a brute-force search takes too long. Longer passwords, passphrases and keys have more possible values, making them exponentially more difficult to crack than shorter ones ...

  3. List of data breaches - Wikipedia

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    The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the number of records is still unknown are also listed. In addition, the various methods used in the breaches are listed, with hacking being the most common.

  4. 2018 Google data breach - Wikipedia

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    Vic Gundotra, Google+ lead at the time of the leaks.. The 2018 Google data breach was a major data privacy scandal in which the Google+ API exposed the private data of over five hundred thousand users.

  5. Collection No. 1 - Wikipedia

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    Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords that appeared on the dark web around January 2019. The database contains over 773 million unique email addresses and 21 million unique passwords, resulting in more than 2.7 billion email/password pairs.

  6. Google hacking - Wikipedia

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    The concept of "Google hacking" dates back to August 2002, when Chris Sullo included the "nikto_google.plugin" in the 1.20 release of the Nikto vulnerability scanner. [4] In December 2002 Johnny Long began to collect Google search queries that uncovered vulnerable systems and/or sensitive information disclosures – labeling them googleDorks.

  7. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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    Arizona hacker, John Sabo A.K.A FizzleB/Peanut, was arrested for hacking Canadian ISP dlcwest.com claiming the company was defrauding customers through over billing. The US general accounting office reports that hackers attempted to break into Defense Department computer files some 250,000 times in 1995 alone with a success rate of about 65% ...

  8. Follow These Steps if You’ve Been Hacked

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    Having a password manager like LastPass can help make this process much faster and easier. Scan all your devices – Download a reputable anti-virus program that will scan your devices for malware ...

  9. Dark Basin - Wikipedia

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    Some of those URLs redirected to websites looking like Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox or various webmails – each page customized with the name of the victim, asking the user to re-enter their password. [9] Citizen Lab baptized this hacker group 'Dark Basin' and identified several clusters among the victims: [1]