Our mission for this week's Community Byte was to create a Python program to crack web-based passwords, like the ones you would see on an email or router login. I wanted it to be universal in the ...

Meet PassGAN, the supposedly “terrifying” AI password cracker that’s mostly hype AI cracking is on par with conventional methods, but you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

Members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus posing as recruiters are baiting Python developers with coding test project for password management products that include malware.

My journey into the Dark-ish Side began during a chat with our security editor, Dan Goodin, who remarked in an offhand fashion that cracking passwords was approaching entry-level "script kiddie ...