Such systems can only operate against off-line password lists, but given the number of system breaches leading to massive password leaks throughout 2012, it should be enough to make websites ...

A team of hackers has managed to crack more than 14,800 supposedly random passwords - from a list of 16,449 - as part of a hacking experiment for a technology website. The success rate for each hacker ...

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 ...