{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark (ceruleansparkold)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-11 07:57:46 UTC","author_name":"Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark (ceruleansparkold)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/ceruleansparkold","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/498516","html":"@ladestitute<\/span><\/a><\/span> To determine the security of your password, you first must calculate your level of password entropy. In the case of a non-dictionary password using a set of all the available symbols, your password has an entropy value of 32.54. As a general rule, a password of N entropy can be cracked in 2 to the power of N attempts, which, for your password, equals 6235849138 tries. (source: http:\/\/www.redkestrel.co.uk\/Articles\/RandomPasswordStrength.html<\/a>). However, this is not the only concern, if the hacker in question is compromising the machines en-masse, it's more likely that he's using a windows exploit than manually cracking every password. To alleviate the likelyhood of this taking place, ensure you've fully patched your copy of windows. Hopefully you're running with a firewall installed too. Have you also checked for possible viral backdoors?"}