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So, I am taking Ethical Hacking at college this summer and have came across a few interesting links to share. They include topics about ATM card skimming and PIN capturing, password cracking, and remotely capturing keystrokes.

ATM Card Skimming and PIN capturing Awareness Guide

View the whole PDF about ATM skimming and Pin capturing, with lots of exmples, here.

Compromising Electromagnetic Emanation of Wired and Wireless Keyboards

For more information, videos, and to read their paper visit The Security and Cryptography Laboratory’s page here.

Password Recovery Speeds: How long will your password stand up?

How strong are your passwords? Lets see… I will guess its no longer than 8 characters in length, right?

Time to Crack / Recover using brute force attack
• numbers ~ 2 mins max
• letters ~ 62 days max
• numbers + letters ~ 253 days max
• numbers + letters + symbols ~ 23 years max

Examples:
• darren ~ 30 seconds
• Land3rz ~ 4 days
• B33r&Mug ~ 23 years

For more information visit the lockdown.co.uk page here.

Remember though, if you a common word(s) you are instantly cracked!