Learn why strong, secure paswords matter by seeing how easy it is to crack passwords with a common tool. Longer, more complex passwords are best, and you'll see why.

More than half of the common passwords examined by online security experts can be cracked in less than a minute with help from AI.

Fortunately, there are simple ways to make passwords both hard-to-guess and easy-to-remember. Unfortunately, the technology industry sometimes gets in the way of using them. Here’s a rundown of ...

If there’s one thing people associate with modern technology, it’s passwords. They’re everywhere, and most of us use them for dozens of things every day. Yet most people are shockingly ...

In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars Technica deputy editor and a self-admitted newbie to password cracking, downloaded a list of more than 16,000 cryptographically hashed ...

Numeric passwords offer better security — it takes at least 10 months for PassGAN to crack number-only passwords, but only if they have more than 18 characters.

A simple eight-character password can be cracked in only 37 seconds using brute force but it takes over a century to crack a 16-character one.

Passwords like “123456,” “Password1,” and “qwerty” aren't just common worldwide, they're ridiculously easy to crack, taking less than a second to unscramble.

A study has shown the PassGAN tool can crack easy passwords in a matter of seconds.

Other password hacking techniques Brute force is just one of many methods hackers use to crack passwords, which is why it’s so important to use a different long password for each of your online ...

What are the worst passwords? NordPass just released its list of the 200 worst passwords of 2020 that could expose your personal data to hackers.