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Here’s how long it takes a hacker to figure out your passwords — and the safest to use
This type of password, according to a cybersecurity firm, is the least likely to be guessed — because it would take 463 ...
GeForce RTX 5090 cracks passwords up to twice as fast as the RTX 4090
Security company Hive Systems has been pushing the boundaries of password cracking using the latest GPU hardware since 2020.
Here's how long it would take 12 RTX 5090 GPUs to crack your password… and a reminder that just adding more characters still works
Hive Systems explains: "Nvidia finally released a new consumer graphics card, the RTX 5090. To simulate a fairly successful ...
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Nvidia RTX 5090 can crack an 8-digit passcode in just 3 hours — password cracking benchmarks show tremendous performance
Hive Systems discovers that 12 RTX 5090 graphics cards can crack a basic numerical eight-digit password in 15 minutes.
Study Finds Your Passwords Are Getting Easier To Crack Thanks To AI And GPUs
A cybersecurity firm reveals that hackers can now quickly crack passwords containing a mix of numbers, uppercase and ...
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Hash Functions With The Golden Ratio
In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears ...
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What Are Cryptographic Hash Functions?
Hash functions are used for cryptocurrency, password security, and message security. Hash functions transform or "map" a given data set into a bit string of fixed size, also known as the "hash value." ...
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25 GPUs Brute Force 348 Billion Hashes Per Second To Crack Your Passwords
How can one understand 348 billion hashes per second? The testing was used on a collection of password hashes using LM and NTLM protocols. The NTLM is a bit stronger and fared better than the LM ...