Tag Archives: Password cracking

News: Beware The Password

 As if you didn’t know it already, (and I’ve posted about this before) your Windows passwords are not safe. According to an article on TechExtreme, some Swiss researchers have published a paper detailing how to crack Windows computers protected by alphanumeric passwords in an average of 13.6 seconds.   Their approach can crack 99.9 percent… Read More »

News: Cracking a Password is Fast

Now your Microsoft Windows password can be cracked in 13.6 seconds, a vast improvement over the slow and tedious 101 seconds it took previously. An improved cryptanalytic method uses large amounts of memory–in this case, 1.4 GB–to speed its cracking of keys, says Security Wire Digest. I won’t bore you with how they did it.… Read More »