Hackers are jumping on the artificial intelligence bandwagon and upping their game. Get this: AI service PassGAN cracked 51% of passwords scanned in under a minute. Cybercriminals have many more tools ...

Your passwords aren't just hanging about on a server waiting to be stolen—there's a whole process that goes on behind the scenes to keep them safe. Just make sure ...

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. Updating your password to be longer and contain a mix of ...

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 ...

There are some golden rules that you need to follow BRITS have been warned to change their dangerously hackable passwords as soon as possible. Security experts have revealed a list of the most common ...

Passwords must be complex and as long as possible so that hackers have no chance of cracking them in a short span of time. However, complicated passwords are easy to forget. Anyone who doesn’t ...

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 ...