Cybersecurity company, Hive Systems, has just put out its 2025 Password Table as a continuation of its yearly analysis of how difficult passwords are to crack. The results are in, and while it's not ...

I have bad news for everyone with weak passwords. A hacker can guess your laziest random passwords in the same amount of time it takes to watch a movie. It turns out when you put the most brutally ...

We've long been told to craft long, hard-to-guess passwords for our online accounts, but lengthy codes are not enough to protect your data, according to new research That’s not to say you should ...

If you're struggling for password ideas, we've got the lowdown on what you should be avoiding, based on the latest data. In this article, we’ll be covering the most-used passwords revealed in the ...

... or other absurdly short lengths? I remember that back before Chase bought them, Bank One's website has a <B>six fucking character limit</B>. My banking ...

LastPass faced a major attack in 2022 after hackers gained access to sensitive user data through an exploit found on the computer of one of the engineers working for the company. More than two years ...

Cybersecurity for most of the population often equates to passwords guarding their devices and data. This has prompted others to ask what exactly the expertly recommended password length is to ensure ...

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May 9, 2025: Updated to note that this data seems to be referring to a worst case scenario for hackers and assumes that the software tries every other hash first before getting to the correct one. In ...