Learn why strong, secure paswords matter by seeing how easy it is to crack passwords with a common tool. Longer, more complex passwords are best, and you'll see why.

Step 2 Crack Hash Follow along with me in this vTutorial as test cracking using my GPU first with bruteforce. After, I demonstrate the performance boost of just one GPU (Hashcat allows up to 16 GPUs).

Sam Croley, a security researcher, tweeted about the card's power for this task, as measured by benchmarks done using HashCat, a password-cracking tool.

Cybercriminals are turning to artificial intelligence to crack passwords. These are the steps you can take to protect yourself against hackers.

Researchers demo how deep neural networks can be trained to generate passwords better than the best password-cracking tools.

It sounded like an interesting challenge. Could I, using only free tools and the resources of the Internet, successfully: -- Find a set of passwords to crack -- Find a password cracker ...

Passwords continue to be the primary target of cybercriminals because they represent the “keys to your kingdom”, especially when it comes to your email.

Overall, the longer and the more complex the passwords, the longer it takes to crack them, with the most complex eight-character passwords taking 164 years.

Anatomy of a crack The longer answer to how these relatively stronger passwords were revealed requires comparing and contrasting the approaches of the three crackers.