More than 60% of the unique hashed passwords that were accessed by hackers from a LinkedIn password database and posted online this week have already been cracked, according to security firm Sophos.

Many of today’s computer passwords are stored and transmitted in a cryptographic hashed form. A strong password hash algorithm ensures that if the password hash is obtained by unauthorized parties ...

A researcher was able to crack 70 percent of the gathered hashes in an experiment in a residential neighborhood. War-driving – the process of driving around mapping residential Wi-Fi networks in hopes ...

Hashcat is a popular and effective password cracker widely used by both penetration testers and sysadmins, as well as criminals and spies. Cracking passwords is different from guessing a web login ...

Company apologizes for hack of forum database containing MD5-hashed passcodes. And plain MD5 for password hashes is inexcusable. Period. Though it's not like I'd expect any better out of Adobe given ...

A rainbow table is a large, precomputed table designed to cache the output of cryptographic hash functions to decrypt hashed passwords into plaintext. Rainbow tables were invented by IT expert ...