Artificial intelligence can be used for good—or evil. Keep your personal information safe from AI password cracking.

Most password-cracking tools apply simple data models to run manual password guesses, use password generation rules like concatenation, and make certain assumptions about password patterns.

This is because most passwords follow predictable patterns and/or use a combination of common words that hackers have learnt to crack.

Time to tighten up your password complexity, dear readers. A deep learning password guessing tool called PassGAN has been found to take less than six minutes to crack your seven-character password ...

Security researcher Yohanes Nugroho has released a decryptor for the Linux variant of Akira ransomware, which utilizes GPU power to retrieve the decryption key and unlock files for free.

A cybersecurity firm took a dive into how fast Nvidia’s monster graphics card can crack passwords. The results are bad news for a lot of people.