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We ha&#118;&#101; discussed alot about popular password cracking methods such &#97;s Bruteforce, &#68;&#105;&#99;ti&#111;nar&#121; attack and Rainbow tables. &#72;&#111;w&#101;ve&#114; a question &#73; get asked frequently is if &#105;t&#39;s possible to &#99;rac&#107; a Facebook &#97;c&#99;&#111;&#117;n&#116;&#46; So I wish to clear co&#110;cept&#115; related to Hacking/Cracking Facebook accounts. F&#105;&#114;s&#116; of all "Hacking a Facebook account" and "&#67;ra&#99;&#107;&#105;n&#103; a facebook account" are both different terminologies.

Hacking a facebook account refers t&#111; foolproof methods such as Phishing, ke&#121;l&#111;g&#103;i&#110;&#103;, Social engineering &#101;tc.&#13;&#10;Ho&#119;&#101;&#118;er the terminology cracking refers t&#111; the me&#116;&#104;&#111;&#100;s such as Bruteforce, Di&#99;&#116;ionary attacks etc.

Brute Force Attacks

Bruteforce is one of the mos&#116; common and m&#111;s&#116; reliable password cracking methodologies. A bruteforce attack tries all p&#111;&#115;&#115;&#105;&#98;l&#101; combinations &#97;&#103;ain&#115;t the medium, until the correct password is found. However &#116;he problem with &#97; bruteforce attack is t&#104;&#97;t as the password complexity increases, the time taken to crack &#97; password also increases.

The chart &#97;&#98;ove illustrates the time &#116;he estimated time taken &#98;&#121; a computer in order &#116;o bruteforce a p&#97;s&#115;wor&#100;, assuming that &#105;f it's capable of trying 10,000 passwords per second. H&#111;weve&#114;, the time &#116;aken can be reduced by &#97;d&#100;&#105;ng the number of processors t&#111; the task. &#84;her&#101;for&#101; the only flaw with &#116;&#104;e attack &#105;s that it requires lots of &#112;ot&#101;&#110;&#116;&#105;a&#108;.

Dictionary A&#116;tac&#107;&#115;&#13;

&#84;&#104;&#101; only difference with &#97; bruteforce attack and D&#105;&#99;&#116;&#105;&#111;n&#97;&#114;y attack is that "A &#68;ic&#116;io&#110;ar&#121; attack tries the passwords wh&#105;&#99;h we &#119;&#97;&#110;t it to try". Confusing?. &#73;&#110; a dictionary attac&#107; we have the freedom to &#99;h&#111;o&#115;&#101; a huge list &#111;&#102; words that p&#101;opl&#101; commonly use in their password (Depending upon t&#104;&#101; situation). The following vi&#100;&#101;o will help &#121;&#111;u understand more about Dictionary attacks.

Is &#73;&#116; Possible &#84;&#111; Crack A Facebook Account?

Coming &#98;&#97;c&#107; to the main topic o&#102; this article. A few hours back while &#73; was watching &#104;a&#99;&#107;i&#110;g related videos &#111;n securitytube.net, I came across to a video in whic&#104; the hacker claim&#101;&#100; that one can use "Hydra T&#111; Crack A Facebook Password". However h&#101;&#114;&#101; is why a bruteforce &#97;&#116;&#116;ack won't work &#97;&#103;ai&#110;st a facebeook account.