Possible credential attack vectors and ways to prevent credential based attacks

Password combined with username form credentials, nearly everything we do online require credentials in our modern world.

To be secure, you’re relied upon to give each of these accounts a solid, unique password that you change consistently and store such that attacker couldn’t make use of it if stolen. Furthermore, you should make a unique username too.

But in practical it is hard to remember username and password.Strong unique passwords are harder to create and to remember, researchers from Paloalto released a White paper on  Credential based attacks, which summarize the possible password attacks and defense mechanism we are to see here.

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