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Top Three Ways Hackers Get Your Password: Guessing, Dictionary and Brutal attacks

Our entire lives are kept on computers. In a typical household, personal information, tax records, banking and credit information, personal letters and journals, private photos, job information; in fact, virtually all of the information about everything in our lives is kept on computer files and on web sites protected by passwords of our own making and encryption provided by a computer program.

Hackers have a number of methods to get through these passwords and encryptions.

Guessing seems like an inefficient way of finding a password until you consider this; most passwords chosen by users fall into a very narrow group of word, making guessing a lot easier for would be hackers. The most commonly used passwords are a person's name or the name of their wife, children or pets. Their birthday, license plate number, street address or the name of a favorite celebrity are also used. More disturbing are the number of people that leave their password blank or use the factory default.

A dictionary attack relies on the above information and the knowledge that most passwords are a single simple word found in any dictionary. It uses a program that runs through all the words in a dictionary until it finds a hit. Other types of dictionary attacks search through all accounts looking for hits on blank or default passwords.

A more aggressive attack, called a brute force attack, requires unlimited time but will always work. If the parameters of the password are known, say, it's known that a certain site requires a password between 6-18 characters and must include both letters and numbers, a brute force attack will try every possible combination until it comes up with the right password. Given enough time it will always find the password, but the more possible combinations that are available, the longer it will take.

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20101011

Choosing the Right Laptop Battery

There are many laptop battery in the electronic market, a large number of substandard products into the market, including many original batteries counterfeit, take many potential to consumers. For non-professional consumers, we suggest the customer select the notebook battery following to the next tips:

1. Check packaging
Battery packaging should be sealed anti-static bags, anti-static foam lining, which is to protect the basic configuration of the Compaq presario cq60 battery.
Battery packaging should have a bar code serial code. Bar code is provided by the factory management of commodity standards to identify the authority logo.

2.check the appearance
Batteries should not be scratched or the appearance of the old sense, or readily available second-hand goods renovation as OEM Compaq presario cq70 battery.
Battery case should be clear parameters, performance, application of model identification.
Joints up and down the Dell inspiron 1440 battery cover should have no marks have been opened.

3. Check the official commitment to the protection of that and after-sale

Formal professional laptop battery grade qualified products cylindrical Dell inspiron 1545 battery , since the date of the factory, there are bonds for one year warranty. If you can not have this commitment, then the use of batteries and other materials may not be the quality of very qualified sub-grade batteries but batteries. At present the market with large number of obsolete Japan, South Korea and the poor Dell vostro 1510 battery conversion, this product may seem cheap products are actually huge profits, as well as the normal use of notebook computers much damage, the explosion will be serious personal injury caused to consumers.
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