A Strong Password: A Hard Nut to Crack

In a recent article “The Great Bank Heist,” I touched on the topic of strong passwords and the need for them. After completing that article I walked away and thought stronger passwords are worth taking a deeper look at and felt compelled to write an article about it. So here it goes…

The Great Bank Heist

 

Typically bank heists are conducted with men wearing all black, ski masks and someone sitting in a van outside ready for a quick getaway. Perhaps that is too old school for a sophisticated group of hackers who just pulled of the biggest bank heist in history, pulling in a billion (yes that is billion with a ‘b’) dollar haul. They carried out this robbery in quite the opposite fashion of the aforementioned style of heist, working remotely and using computers to steal the money.