Brute-force password guessing attacks are very common. If you operate a publicly accessible SSH server, then you know firsthand just how common it is with constant poking for weak passwords on ...

The Netherlands Police have arrested a a 21-year-old man from Dordrecht, suspected of selling access to the JokerOTP phishing automation tool that can intercept one-time passwords (OTP) for hijacking ...

There is a new tool offensive security teams can use for their password cracking needs. CrackQ is open-source and can provide metrics on the current jobs, queuing and re-queuing tasks. CrackQ is an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. Passwords remain the primary method of authentication and password ...

It takes a mere .25 milliseconds to crack passwords such as “123456”, “qwerty” or “password” — examples of some of the worst, most common passwords used last year. Although password policies at ...

iLovePDF brings different PDF tools to sign PDF documents, edit PDF, convert PDF to PDF/A, Excel, Word, reorder or rearrange PDF pages, and more. Among those tools, a Protect PDF tool is also there ...

Password resets have always been problematic for helpdesks. Not only are there significant costs associated with the password reset process, but the helpdesk staff’s time could be better spent helping ...

Data breaches are one of the biggest threats facing today’s digital landscape, owing to cyber-criminals and inadequate security measures. Fortunately, Google has announced the launch of a new tool, ...

When Novell first put Lightweight Directory Access Protocol support into eDirectory, lots of network managers, script writers, Web masters and code warriors jumped at the opportunity to use the ...

A deep-learning network known as a GAN has been applied to passwords, and a tool called PassGAN significantly improves the ability to guess user passwords over tools such as Hashcat or John the Ripper ...

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