A Swiss university lecturer has applied and refined a 20 year old password cracking technique to enable him to crack alphanumeric Windows password hashes in a matter of seconds. The technique involves ...

In this article, we will talk about Password cracking attacks, their methods, and prevention. Password cracking attacks have become most common nowadays. These attacks are performed by cybercriminals ...

Microsoft Windows 10 flaw has now been pointed out by Microsoft as the company released a workaround for a certain privilege elevation flaw. The flaw reportedly affects all versions of the Windows 10, ...

At the Passwords^12 Conference in Oslo, Norway researcher Jeremi Gosney presented an extremely powerful password cracking rig that wields a spectacularly heavy 25 GPUs in order to quickly chew through ...

Organizations using Open Policy Agent (OPA) for Windows should consider updating to v0.68.0 or later to protect against an authentication hash leakage vulnerability identified in all earlier versions ...

Last month I wrote a column in which I discussed my attempts at cracking passwords in a lab environment. I had intended for the blog post to be a thought exercise. I constantly hear people ...