I believe that all of our readers have heard about the LastPass Breach. There is a lot of seriously flawed information out there on social media. Yes, it appears to be true that customer password vaults were obtained by threat actors. But what does than mean to you? How bad is it? That depends on you. Given a reasonable password you probably have nothing to worry about. Let’s first talk about three well-known types of password-cracking attacks.
- Dictionary Attacks/Passphrase Token Attacks
- Brute Force Attacks
- Optimized Brute Force Attacks