How Simply Upper-Casing Your Password Can Frustrate A Hacker

by bill - 2011-02-13 05:00:00 ( in education, tech, computers, internet) [php version]

Simply upper-casing your password can frustrate a hacker's attempts

"A six-letter password in lower-case text takes a hacker's computer just ten minutes to crack, according to statistics collated by Bloomberg Businessweek. But make those letters upper-case and it takes ten hours for it to randomly work out your password."

Read, listen or watch here: How simply upper-casing your password can frustrate a hackers attempts at breaking into your account.