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Example: If the password is sunshine, football, welcome123, password1, etc. These are all in
dictionary lists. Attackers download dictionaries with millions of words and combine them
with numbers like sunil123, hello2024, india@123, etc.

Social engineering-based guessing: Attackers guess passwords based on the victim’s
personal information. sources attackers observe social media (birthday, pet name, school
name), public profiles, photos, and conversations.

Common passwords people create:
Sunil2009 (name + birth year)

Aditi@123 (name + 123)

Tommy55 (pet name)

Delhi@2020 (city + year)
Keylogging: Keylogging uses malicious software (keylogger) to record every keystroke entered
on a computer.

If a keylogger is installed, the email and password typed on the keyboard are recorded, and
all the recorded information is then secretly sent to the attacker.

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EMAIL SAFETY SCAN Century #Media Literacy
Skills

Is an email account truly safe? Find out whether your account has been part of any data breach. For this,
visit the following link: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Enter the email ID on the website and check the number of data breaches associated with that account.
How many breaches are listed?

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