Updating your password to be longer and contain a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols can increase the time it takes a hacker to crack it even as password encryption measures improve, according ...

This is how the passwords would appear if they were in a saved password file: Now, it's time to crack them. To start, let's do a dictionary attack, one of the most common methods of attacking ...

How can one understand 348 billion hashes per second? The testing was used on a collection of password hashes using LM and NTLM protocols. The NTLM is a bit stronger and fared better than the LM ...

Passwords are the bane of our existence. Consumer Reports offers an easy way to manage all your passwords and tells you how to create easy-to-remember yet hard-to-crack passwords.

Recently, research students at Georgia Tech released a report outlining the dangers that GPUs pose to the current state of password security. There are a number of ways to crack a password ...

The 2023 report highlights the commonly used passwords in India and how long it would take for hackers to crack them. The below passwords have been extracted from publicly available databases ...