![]() ![]() Dark web criminal sites do a brisk trade in these logins. Steal your personal identity information and sell it to fellow criminals.Passwords are the virtual keys to your digital world – providing access to your online banking, email and social media services, our Netflix and Uber accounts, and all the data hosted in our cloud storage. We must put at least the same amount of effort into protecting our online accounts. Given that the password is often the only thing standing between a cybercriminal and your personal and financial data, crooks are more than eager to steal or crack these logins. It’s little wonder many people cut corners and security suffers as a result. ![]() Passwords are the Achilles’ heel of the digital lives of many people, especially as we live in an age when the average person has 100 login credentials to remember, with the number only trending upwards in recent years. One reason for the enduring popularity of passwords is that people know instinctively how they work. The concept of the password has been around for centuries and passwords were introduced into computing way sooner than most of us can remember. From social engineering to looking over your shoulder, here are some of the most common tricks that bad guys use to steal passwords
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