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 passcodes.

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 ...

A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions. The “secure enough” ...

The original author of the MD5 password hash algorithmhas publicly declared his software end-of-life and is "no longer considered safe" to use on commercial websites. This comes only a day after a ...

Researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, the Eindhoven University of Technology and the University of Berkeley among others used the machines to create a rogue ...

Underscoring just how broken the widely used MD5 hashing algorithm is, a software engineer racked up just 65 cents in computing fees to replicate the type of attack a powerful nation-state used in ...