Your iPhone password can be hacked in 18 minutes and other surprising cybersecurity facts

[Walter Cronkite]

A "brute force" attack on an iPhone can cycle through nine password guesses per second, according to Dino Dai Zovi, an independent security consultant and notorious Apple hacker.

Which means...

-A password made up of 4 numeric characters would take 18 minutes to hack

-Alphanumeric characters are trickier. A password with 4 of them would take 51 hours to break.

-5 alphanumeric characters: 8 years

-8 alphanumeric characters: 13,000 years

Source: CNN