Last month I wrote a column in which I discussed my attempts at cracking passwords in a lab environment. I had intended for the blog post to be a thought exercise. I constantly hear people ...

In this article, we will talk about Password cracking attacks, their methods, and prevention. Password cracking attacks have become most common nowadays. These attacks are performed by cybercriminals ...

Security services firm Trustwave has released an open source project aimed at companies that want to provide password-cracking as a service to their security teams and red teams, the company announced ...

Unlock the secrets of Windows password security with your essential guide to navigating password-cracking techniques.

Along with the positive aspects of the new generative AI services come new risks. One that’s surfaced is an advanced approach to cracking passwords called PassGAN. Using the latest AI, it was able to ...

Chances are you need to change your password. No matter how long it is. Over the weekend, the free password cracking and recovery tool oclHashcat-plus released a new version, 0.15, that can handle ...

Jeremi M Gosney (@jmgosney) is a world-renowned password cracker and security expert. He is the Founder & CEO of the password-cracking firm Sagitta HPC, and a member of the Hashcat development team.

On-demand cloud computing is a wonderful tool for companies that need some computing capacity for a short time, but don’t want to invest in fixed capital for long term. For the same reasons, cloud ...

Cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes published a study about AI and its ability to crack passwords. A new AI password cracking tool is capable of cracking a majority of six-character passwords and ...

A researcher was able to crack 70 percent of the gathered hashes in an experiment in a residential neighborhood. War-driving – the process of driving around mapping residential Wi-Fi networks in hopes ...

Early last year, password security researcher Kevin Young was hitting a brick wall. Over the previous few weeks, he made steady progress decoding cryptographically ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) — Chances are, your household is ...