Brute force cracking of passwords takes longer now than in the past, but the good news is not a cause for celebration, according to the latest annual audit of password cracking times released Tuesday ...

RICHMOND, Va. – In its annual audit of hackers’ ability to crack passwords through brute force, Hive Systems found that any password under seven characters can be cracked within a matter of hours. Due ...

A reader sent me the following question: “What are the current real-world capabilities of the various forms of encryption to resist compromise? Would like to see stats… Of course, the variables are ...

Weak passwords and unresolved vulnerabilities are said to be to blame as the Federal Bureau of Investigation issues a new warning about threat actors using brute-force credential cracking tactics as ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. Kaspersky analysed the resistance of 193 million English ...

PassGAN is a shortened combination of the words “Password” and “generative adversarial networks.” PassGAN is an approach that debuted in 2017. It uses machine learning algorithms running on a neural ...