Cracking Password in the Cloud
Forget what you’ve learned about password security. A simple pass code with nothing more than lower-case letters may be all you need – provided you use 12 characters. That’s the conclusion of security consultant David Campbell, who calculated the cost of waging a brute-force attack on various types of passwords using cloud computing services offered by Amazon.
Based on hourly fees Amazon charges for its EC2 web service, it would cost more than $1.5m to brute force a 12-character password containing nothing more than lower-case letters a through z. But user beware, an 11-character code costs less than $60,000 to crack, and a 10-letter phrase costs less than $2,300.
使用云计算服务来替代在公司里设立维护大量服务器,显然对节省企业的成本有利。不过现在看来从云计算服务中受惠最大的恐怕是黑客等群体,黑客们开始利用亚马逊EC2等云计算服务来暴力破解并窃取用户信用卡密码。不过据安全专家David Campbell的计算,即便用户不使用安全专家建议的大小写字母混合式的密码组合,使用亚马逊提供的云计算服务进行密码暴力破解的黑客,出于成本过高的原因可能也将无法使用这种服务对具备12位长度的密码进行破解。
目前,亚马逊公司为用户提供一种名为EC2的云计算网络服务,这种服务按小时计费.而如果要利用这种服务来暴力破解长度为12位的密码,黑客需要为此支付150万美元以上金额的服务费。不过如果密码的长度缩短为11位,那么便只需要不到6万美元服务费即可,而10位密码则需要支付不到2300美元的费用。


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