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The availability of password-cracking tools based on increasingly powerful graphics processors means that even carefully chosen short passwords are liable to crack under a brute-force attack. A password of less than seven characters will soon be “hopelessly inadequate” even if … Continue reading →

Researchers at Microsoft and Harvard University warn that popular passwords pose a bigger risk to online security than weak ones and suggest that many tools to enforce strong passwords actually steer users to choices that are easy to guess.Forcing users … Continue reading →

A well-known cryptographic attack could be used by hackers to log into Web applications used by millions of users, according to two security experts who plan to discuss the issue at an upcoming security conference. Researchers Nate Lawson and Taylor … Continue reading →

Instead of indicating password quality via coloured bars, the Windows crypto tool Thor’s Godly Privacy (TGP) informs users about the estimated time required for a successful brute-force attack on the chosen password. TGP calculates the time from the number of … Continue reading →

Mozilla on Tuesday warned users that a password-stealing add-on slipped into Firefox’s extension gallery more than a month ago had been downloaded nearly 2,000 times before it was detected. The malicious “Mozilla Sniffer” add-on was yanked from Mozilla’s servers Monday, … Continue reading →

Nowhere is that more true than the item at the heart of basic security: the humble password. Here, our best practices—something that’s not in the dictionary or written down, differs for every account, etc.—ignores basic research, which shows that humans … Continue reading →

Brazilian police seized five hard drives when they raided the Rio apartment of banker Daniel Dantas as part of Operation Satyagraha in July 2008. But subsequent efforts to decrypt files held on the hardware using a variety of dictionary-based attacks … Continue reading →

There has been a steady flow of academic studies into the insecurity of the username/password authentication system that suggest it’s doomed to failure: humans have a limited memory capacity for unique strings of random characters, which is precisely what most … Continue reading →

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