Several readers of late have noticed that after entering an eight-character password in Mac OS X (for an installer, or other activities), any extra characters typed will be ignored. This ...

Any eight-character password hashed using Microsoft's widely used NTLM algorithm can now be cracked in two and a half hours.

For example, it will only take an hour for a hacker to find a ten-character password made up entirely of numbers. By increasing the number of characters to 14, it could take them up to a year.

LastPass will finally enforce a 12-character minimum master password An overdue safety upgrade after a major security meltdown.

Even though LastPass has repeatedly said that there is a 12-character master password requirement since 2018, users have had the ability to use a weaker one.

With regard to yesterday's item detailing Mac OS X's effective limitation of passwords to eight characters, several readers speculate that the problem may be more of a simple quirk than a true ...

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 ...

internet and privacy Why your eight-character email password is not safe anymore By leveraging today’s computing power, a password can be guessed in as little as 12 minutes.

Research carried out by the Georgia Institute of Technology has confirmed what many IT security professionals have suspected for some time – that eight character passwords are no longer enough to keep ...

GPU cracks six-character password in four seconds A £30 nVidia GeForce GT220 graphics card is capable of cracking strong passwords in a matter of hours.