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Windows users can protect themselves from falling victim to ongoing “hack your own password” attacks by doing these three ...

One of the biggest stories of the year was the leak of 16 billion passwords — credentials now being used in ongoing hack ...

A significant portion of cyber breaches begin with one simple issue: weak passwords. With modern cracking tools capable of testing billions of combinations per second, many passwords that users ...

You may have asked yourself, "How do hackers take my password, if the website owner can't?" The answer is simple. When a website stores your login password for the ...

Statistically speaking, your passwords probably suck. At least, that’s the implication made by one cybersecurity research team, which analyzed over 19 billion leaked passwords and found only six ...

Cracking the Codes: A new Hive Systems Password Table update highlights a growing concern: modern GPUs can crack hashed passwords faster than ever. As hardware improves, short or simple credentials ...

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 ...

I was five seconds into scrolling through Hive Systems’ latest password cracking chart – released just in time for World Password Day celebrated worldwide on May 1, 2025 – when a mix of dread and awe ...

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If your organization is like many, your employees may be relying on weak or easily guessable passwords — and inadvertently rolling out the red carpet for hackers and cybercriminals in the process. So ...