Find out precisely how long it'll take a hacker to crack a password as long - and as complex - as yours, and how you can improve it.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — How safe is your password? How long would it take a computer to crack it and get all your information? Check out this graphic from Statista. It shows the number of characters ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity experts at Newcastle University have discovered that it's possible to crack a four-digit pin within five guesses using only data collected from various internal phone sensors.

Take a look at the image to see other comparisons, the first column describes your password, the other columns show you how long the hackers need to hack your password.

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.