People are creatures of habit, and predictable - these facets of our personalities are frequently taken advantage of by cyber threat actors looking to crack passwords from the latest data breach repository. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 explains the password cracking process, and shows how users still create passwords with easily guessable, thus easily hackable, patterns. This post also highlights how these predictable patterns still allow miscreants to crack hashed/encoded passwords. To alleviate passwords with guessable patterns, consider employing password managers that take the guesswork out of password creation. Likewise, adding a method of multi-factor authentication (MFA) adds another obstacle for the bad guys. Rapid7