I have always wondered exactly who buys password recovery products, white hats or black hats. I suspect that the answer is both, which makes the following press release both encouraging and ...

Using a $100 graphics card and a freeware utility, you can bruteforce NTLM MD5 password hashes at a rate of 3.3 billion guesses per second. A comparable CPU can bruteforce the same hashes at just 9.8 ...

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 ...

Hive Systems has released the 2025 edition of its password crack time estimate table, and it's a doozy. Among many other findings, the company's researchers calculated that all random passwords around ...