Every year the private digital security company NordPass publishes a list of the most popular passwords across 30 countries. And as always, the current list from 2022 also contains shockingly simple ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Cryptography, the age-old art of secrecy, has evolved into the science of protecting confidential information in the burgeoning world of bytes, passwords and cloud storage.

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...

Earlier this month, the email addresses and passwords of more than 400,000 Yahoo users were compromised as the result of a security breach. According to several tech news websites, a group of hackers ...

You may have asked yourself, "How do hackers take my password, if the website owner can't?" The answer is simple. When a website stores your login password for the ...

So you have a strong password. Is that enough? The psychology of password creation would suggest we are not necessarily safe from Brute Force Attacks. “Heuristic brute forcing provides hackers with ...

the birthday Paradox says if you have 23 people in a row there's a 50% chance that two of those individuals out of the 23 share the same birthday if you don't think into that too far it doesn't make ...

Cryptographic hash functions secure data by providing a unique fixed-length output for each input. These functions are essential in blockchain for data integrity and secure transactions. Understanding ...

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A Russian cyber-espionage hacker group has been spotted using a novel technique that involves patching locally installed browsers like Chrome and Firefox in order to modify the browsers' internal ...