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A simple eight-character password can be cracked in only 37 seconds using brute force but it takes over a century to crack a 16-character one. Updating your password to be longer and contain a mix of ...

Cybersecurity company, Hive Systems, has just put out its 2025 Password Table as a continuation of its yearly analysis of how difficult passwords are to crack. The results are in, and while it's not ...

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 ...

An eight-character-long password made of numbers can be cracked instantly, according to the IT firm Hive Systems. Every year, the company releases its password table, which displays the time needed to ...

Compared to 2024, the time it takes to crack passwords with graphics processing units (GPUs) for the consumer sector has decreased by almost 20 percent. An eight-character password consisting of only ...

Chinese researchers say they have become the first people to use a quantum computer to compromise the type of password-based security system widely employed in critical industries such as defense.