Security News > 2023 > August > Four common password mistakes hackers love to exploit

Any clues as to what makes up the structure of a password is very helpful to hackers.

We'll walk through how hackers take advantage of four of the most common password mistakes users make, as well as ways to strengthen your Active Directory against these risks.

They can exploit common base terms through dictionary attacks, where a pre-defined list of weak base terms and their common modifications are used to guess passwords or decryption keys.

An organization might have a password manager in place, requiring the end user to only remember one very strong password.

First, an effective password policy that ensures users' passwords are strong in the first place mitigates against dictionary and brute force attacks that prey on common base terms, short password length, and keyboard walk patterns.

Specops Password Policy comes with a Breached Password Protection feature which checks your Active Directory against a list of over 3 billion unique compromised passwords.

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