In the password security arms race, the bad guys are winning. Once-sturdy cryptographic “hashing” algorithms — pillars of online data security — are proving vulnerable to brute force attacks that use ...

A search for “Hash Hunters” turns up marijuana-themed t-shirts for sale. It also brings up a password-cracking outsourcing service, payable in bitcoin. Fearing data breaches, Web services often store ...

Passwords are the keys to our online identities, and as a result, they’re also near the top of the target list for attackers. There have been countless breaches in the last few years in which ...

The GPUs used for decryption are RTX 2080, RTX 3090, RTX 4090, 8 A100, 12 A100, and 10,000 A100. According to this, with the RTX 4090, which is the top class of gaming GPU at the time of writing, it ...

A combination of hardware and cloud technologies could force the IT industry to rethink what constitutes a secure password. Virtual Open Cluster (VCL) software is used to load balance across the ...

A rainbow table is a large, precomputed table designed to cache the output of cryptographic hash functions to decrypt hashed passwords into plaintext. Rainbow tables were invented by IT expert ...