Abstract: Choosing the most effective word-mangling rules to use when performing a dictionary-based password cracking attack can be a difficult task. In this paper we discuss a new method that ...

WTF?! It's quite rare that we hear positive stories about AI, but at least one person is thankful for the proliferation of LLMs. A Bitcoin owner who forgot their wallet password 11 years ago just used ...

Managing user accounts efficiently is essential for both system administrators and advanced users. With PowerShell, you can securely change local account passwords on Windows 11 without relying on the ...

We all have plenty of online accounts. Using the same password for all of them isn’t safe; if one gets hacked, all our accounts are compromised. You shouldn’t ...

Compute power is growing at an extraordinary pace. The AI surge has driven massive investment in GPUs and specialized ‘accelerators’, with vendors building increasingly powerful hardware to train ...

In January 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts identified a new evolution in the ongoing ClickFix campaign. This updated tactic deliberately crashes victims’ browsers and then attempts to lure users into ...

Each one of our favorite Android phones comes with Google's password manager built in. It offers a convenient and safe way to store your credentials and is much better than relying on your memory to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy. Given the news today that the latest mega breach of passwords ...

This Python program, called CRACKSHA256, is a simple SHA256 hash cracker that takes a SHA256 hash and a wordlist as inputs. It attempts to crack the hash by iterating over each word in the wordlist, ...

Wrong — they’re meant to do so much more. I used to be in the same boat as many of you probably are, using password managers exclusively for generating and storing strong passwords. Then one day, my ...