Brute force cracking of passwords takes longer now than in the past, but the good news is not a cause for celebration, according to the latest annual audit of password cracking times released ...

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 ...

Brute-force cracking is like trying every possible key to unlock a door. Sometimes, the door is an access-control system and the key is a password; sometimes the door is a decryption algorithm and ...

Using a GPU can speed up by as much as a hundredfold certain kinds of brute-force efforts, in which a strong password algorithm is challenged by iterating through every possible character ...

In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars deputy editor and a self-admitted newbie to password cracking, downloaded a list of more than 16,000 cryptographically hashed passcodes ...

One uppercase letter followed by six letters plus a digit on the end is common for older passwords — “Bananas1”, for example. Instead of trying to brute-force every possible password, you ...

In this article, we'll provide an overview of the biggest threats, password cracking, discuss the importance of strong passwords, and detail the top 5 password cracking techniques hackers use.

Returning to the MD5 example, an eight-character password comprised of numbers, uppercase and lowercase letters, and symbols can be cracked by a lone NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 in 59 minutes.

Bad news — many of today's top passwords can be brute force ... algorithm. The researchers then used an Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU and tried to estimate the time needed to crack the passwords using ...