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Dec 23 2016

Interesting Trick Hackers Use to Get Instagram Passwords

What surprised me this morning is reading an article at some portal saying a group of hackers used creative trick to hack thousands of Instagram accounts in like few weeks. Now you might ask yourself how it can be possible with all of security systems which Instagram and Facebook (Company who owns it) invested into providing their servers safe. What they did is they created application with “brute-force way” attack method to hack accounts called “Extreme Programming App“. This method functions with system of attacking login page with all possible password combinations of various symbols, letters and numbers. It takes …