Cerulean Lulamoon-Spark (ceruleansparkold)'s status on Monday, 12-Sep-11 07:57:46 UTC
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@ladestitute 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). 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?
