Because the hashing algorithm and the salt are stored along with the password itself, Linux password hashes are pretty portable. If you have one hash, you can copy it to another system and use the ...

In Part I of this series, I explained how password cracking works in general terms and described my specific password-cracking hardware. In this article, I dig into the software side of things and ...

If you press the backspace key 28 times on a locked-down Linux machine you want to access, a Grub2 bootloader flaw will allow you to break through password protection and wreck havoc in the system ...

FireEye released a managed password cracking tool, GoCrack, to help security professionals test password effectiveness and securely store passwords.

Along with the positive aspects of the new generative AI services come new risks. One that’s surfaced is an advanced approach to cracking passwords called PassGAN. Using the latest AI, it was ...

Most password-cracking tools apply simple data models to run manual password guesses, use password generation rules like concatenation, and make certain assumptions about password patterns.

Hackers can crack weak passwords in seconds, while strong ones may take years. Learn about the time to crack your password and boost security.

Linux gives you lots of ways to create complexity in passwords that include a lot more than just length, such as mixing upper- and lower-case letters with numerals and punctuation marks along with ...

A study has shown the PassGAN tool can crack easy passwords in a matter of seconds.

When you need to enforce password changes for users on Linux machines, the chage command-line tool is a must-have.