password policies (1)

Prepared by:  Nicholas Dessanti, UNH Cyber Student Intern

Password security has been a major topic of discussion for all computer and web site users.  Today, hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities within user passwords in many ways.  Brute force attacks are the most common way hackers use to find passwords.  Another common method is called a dictionary attack.  Both brute force and dictionary attacks systematically check all possible passwords until the correct one is found.  Hashing algorithms a