attack the company from the inside >> to crack passwords, the teen built a special machine called cracken. >> the criminals use something similar as well. >> despite recent attacks, most people still resource to basic passwords like these used by employees at a major media company. and these from people at a manufacturing business check out how many times they use a season and other patterns. >> parents, what kind of passwords do they use. >> children's names. >> pet owners. >> the names of their pets. >> we got to test out cracken at the cyber war room outside of boston and he said the top used password is password one and so we tested that first and the crack time 148 seconds next we try a longer one adding capital letters an the special characters everyone tells you to use believe it or not, our longer password with caps and dollar signs was easier to crack but neither one was very tough >> you go beyond 14 characters it is more and more difficult to crack a password. >> while anything is crackable, long passwords like complete sentences take so much longer, criminals might not even bo