Cybersecurity company, Hive Systems, has just put out its 2025 Password Table as a continuation of its yearly analysis of how difficult passwords are to crack. The results are in, and while it's not ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In our ever-expanding digital world, passwords are an inevitability: email, apps, subscriptions and loyalty programs — nearly everything ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Harvard University’s Information Security group says a ...

Concerns about the vulnerabilities of passwords are not new, and there have been recent moves to pivot to other secure alternatives, such as passkeys. A recent report has further highlighted that need ...

While some might say passwords are on the way out, especially with the advent of passkeys that are regarded as a better solution. However, the extinction of the password isn’t a reality yet. Passwords ...

For years the security industry has stressed the importance of strong passwords. Some recent research from Home Security Heroes starkly shows the value of that advice. Using artificial intelligence, ...

A team of security experts used a Generative Adversarial Network to determine how long it would take to crack the most common passwords, and it's not very long. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

We can now add easily cracking passwords in a matter of seconds to the list of things that AI can do. Cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes recently published a study uncovering how AI tools analyze ...

A government watchdog has published a scathing rebuke of the Department of the Interior’s cybersecurity posture, finding it was able to crack thousands of employee user accounts because the department ...

May 9, 2025: Updated to note that this data seems to be referring to a worst case scenario for hackers and assumes that the software tries every other hash first before getting to the correct one. In ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Despite the rise of cyber attacks involving things like ...