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 ...

Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries. And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ...

Twelve RTX 5090 GPUs can crack short (but complex) passwords in days Password complexity and length drastically increase time needed to brute force Real-world cracking could be faster than Hive ...

We can now add easily cracking passwords in a matter of seconds to the list of things that AI can do. Cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes recently published a study uncovering how AI tools analyze ...

Turns out, your long password might not be as secure as you think. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from ...

The right AI program can breach 51% of all common passwords within less than a minute, a new report has found. Given an hour, AI can figure out 65% of common passwords. The key takeaway: Passwords ...

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Password-manager purveyor LastPass has announced it's setting new rules about the strength of customer passwords, with a new mandate that account master passwords include a minimum of 12 characters. A ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the federal body that sets technology standards for governmental agencies, standards organizations, and private companies, has proposed ...

to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. We've long been told to craft long, hard-to-guess passwords for our online accounts, but lengthy codes are not enough to protect ...