As full-disk encryption becomes increasingly used to protect data, new software tools that can recover lost passwords or change forgotten ones are being released. Full-disk encryption will protect ...

AI may be able to do lots of cool things like write computer code, tell you a story, and explain the theory of relativity. But it can also do at least one thing that's not so cool: Figure out your ...

A company that makes a password cracking tool says that a new vulnerability found in the Mac T2 chip allows it to brute force passwords and decrypt a device. Apple's T2 chip, among other features, ...

Cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes published a study about AI and its ability to crack passwords. A new AI password cracking tool is capable of cracking a majority of six-character passwords and ...

Password-cracking and guessing attempts are successful enough as it is to put more than a little gray in the hair of experienced cybersecurity professionals. Now new research shows even more effective ...

Security analyst Sam Croley is a specialist in password cracking, and has just found a new best friend: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Impressively, the Ada Lovelace architecture flagship graphics card ...

Festive-themed passwords dominate breach data, showing predictable habits repeating Seasonal words keep appearing in attacks because users rely on simple memories Modern password cracking tools easily ...

Why it matters: Security researcher and password cracker Sam Croley posted benchmarks highlighting the RTX 4090's password-cracking muscle. Nvidia's newest flagship GPU shattered the RTX 3090's ...

Threat actors are targeting systems in industrial control environments with backdoor malware hidden in fake password-cracking tools. The tools, being touted for sale on a variety of social media ...