Adam over at Lifehacker has a problem. His wife locks up all his porn on a Windows machine that only she knows the password to. That’s why Adam came up with a guide to easily crack a Windows password ...

At the beginning of a sunny Monday morning earlier this month, I had never cracked a password. By the end of the day, I had cracked 8,000. Even though I knew password cracking was easy, I didn't know ...

Phil Dougherty has a side hustle as a friendly hacker. By day, he's a software developer at the University of Wisconsin, building free educational games and conducting research on the ways people play ...

reported that part of the source code of the password management application 'LastPass' was stolen by someone, and then in December 2022, LastPass finally confirmed that user data had been illegally ...

Data from cybersecurity company Hive Systems shows how long it takes hackers to crack your password based on how many characters it has, and how complicated it is. Hive’s report showed that even an ...

Click to viewExtremely impressed at the ease and speed with which the Ophcrack Live CD cracked my Windows admin password when I tested it out last a few weeks ago, I thought it might be useful to ...

Experts agree that it’s long past time for companies to stop relying on traditional passwords. They should switch to more secure access methods like multi-factor authentication (MFA), biometrics, and ...

We all assume hackers won't crack our own passwords, even if they're simple ones with only a few characters. But just how easy is it for someone to break into an online login? According to new ...

Using a $100 graphics card and a freeware utility, you can bruteforce NTLM MD5 password hashes at a rate of 3.3 billion guesses per second. A comparable CPU can bruteforce the same hashes at just 9.8 ...

QUESTION: How can hackers try millions of passwords at a time when I will get locked out after three failed attempts? ANSWER: Passwords continue to be the primary target of cybercriminals because they ...