Twelve RTX 5090 GPUs can crack short (but complex) passwords in days Password complexity and length drastically increase time needed to brute force Real-world cracking could be faster than Hive ...

A password expert has shown that passwords can be cracked by brute force four times faster than was previously thought possible. It's no magician's trick. Jeremi Gosney of the Stricture Consulting ...

RICHMOND, Va. – In its most recent research in password security, Hive Systems found that any 8-character password can be cracked in less than an hour through brute force. Further, any password ...

There is a reason why most services ask for a specific number of characters for passwords, and even specific types of characters. If you’ve ever wondered why, well, a cybersecurity firm, Hive Systems, ...

We already know that most users’ clever passwords aren’t protecting them from hackers. It turns out that the complex password requirements most sites ask you for aren’t doing as much to help either.

How do you create a strong password? Easy: You mash your keyboard for a few seconds until you have a 50-character hunk of gibberish, then you copy and paste that into ...

The World Economic Forum released a series of tips to help inform people how to change their passwords to maximize security. Using characters beyond just lowercase letters, adding in uppercase, ...

How hard is it to crack a computer passphrase of 12 characters or more? Mathematically speaking, 67 million years, using sophisticated hardware, compared with 300 days to crack an eight-character ...

Forget fingerprints or two factor authentication, scientists may have figured out a way to log into a computer with a synthetic molecule. In the new study published in the Cell Press journal Chem, ...

Linux gives you lots of ways to create complexity in passwords that include a lot more than just length, such as mixing upper- and lower-case letters with numerals and punctuation marks along with ...

The purpose of a password is to limit access to information. Having a very common or simple one like "abcdef" or "letmein," or even normal words like "password" or "dragon," is barely any security at ...

Most of us use digital tools to help us manage our day-to-day lives—things such as email and bank accounts. In order to protect personal and private information, these tools and programs are accessed ...