Adam over at Lifehacker has a problem. His wife locks up all his porn on a Windows machine that only she knows the password to. That’s why Adam came up with a guide to easily crack a Windows password ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — How safe is your password? How long would it take a computer to crack it and get all your information? Check out this graphic from Statista. It shows the number of characters in a ...

Phil Dougherty has a side hustle as a friendly hacker. By day, he's a software developer at the University of Wisconsin, building free educational games and conducting research on the ways people play ...

QUESTION: How can hackers try millions of passwords at a time when I will get locked out after three failed attempts? ANSWER: Passwords continue to be the primary target of cybercriminals because they ...

At the beginning of a sunny Monday morning earlier this month, I had never cracked a password. By the end of the day, I had cracked 8,000. Even though I knew password cracking was easy, I didn't know ...

Experts agree that it’s long past time for companies to stop relying on traditional passwords. They should switch to more secure access methods like multi-factor authentication (MFA), biometrics, and ...

reported that part of the source code of the password management application 'LastPass' was stolen by someone, and then in December 2022, LastPass finally confirmed that user data had been illegally ...

Click to viewExtremely impressed at the ease and speed with which the Ophcrack Live CD cracked my Windows admin password when I tested it out last a few weeks ago, I thought it might be useful to ...

We all assume hackers won't crack our own passwords, even if they're simple ones with only a few characters. But just how easy is it for someone to break into an online login? According to new ...

How Secure Is My Password is a no-frills password checker that dishes the dirt on your password strength or lack there of. How Secure Is My Password is a simple site with a singular focus, forcing you ...