Long, complex passwords with bcrypt take 27,154 years to crack, but reused or breached credentials remain a top vulnerability ...

Updating your password to be longer and contain a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols can increase the time it takes a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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