One of the worrying aspects is the growing usage of language models and AI in general to organize cyberattacks. AI is increasingly being used not only to scam people, but also to brute force passwords ...

Length does matter (ha), but how you create and manage a password often matters just as much, if not more. A long password that's predictable or reused across accounts can still be cracked, leaked or ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. With just a few dollars, a little time, and a smart ...

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. “We sent an email to users with compromised ...

I was wondering if anyone knew of a brute force program that could try to mount a true crypt drive and accept keyfiles provided to it?<BR><BR>I have my TrueCrypt USB drive and I wanted to try and ...

Security researcher Thomas Roth told Reuters that he will show off his findings at the Black Hat conference in Washington, D.C., next week. Roth claims that he used Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 ...

A new Go-based botnet malware named 'GoTrim' is scanning the web for self-hosted WordPress websites and attempting to brute force the administrator's password and take control of the site. This ...

There is no question that passwords are one of the weakest links in the overall cybersecurity of many organizations. Unfortunately, passwords are constantly under attack as they arguably provide one ...

A weeks-long brute force attack campaign by malicious actors has reached mammoth proportions, according to a non-profit security organization. The Shadowserver Foundation reports that the campaign, ...

Windows 11 22H2, currently available for Windows Insiders in the Windows Insider program, comes with a massive list of new features and changes. Some of those improvements are not visible at first ...

The number of “brute force” attacks on small and midsize companies has risen dramatically in the past few months, according to Houston-based Alert Logic Inc., an on-demand IT network security company ...