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 ...

Concerns about the vulnerabilities of passwords are not new, and there have been recent moves to pivot to other secure alternatives, such as passkeys. A recent report has further highlighted that need ...

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 ...

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I have bad news for everyone with weak passwords. A hacker can guess your laziest random passwords in the same amount of time it takes to watch a movie. It turns out when you put the most brutally ...