Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

One of the biggest security threats is password cracking. Are you an IT system administrator concerned about the security of your organization's data? In this article, we'll provide an overview of ...

Now, I only need to search for "password" on the Ars homepage to very quickly find a plethora of articles which tell me neither hashing schemes are particularly secure. While the combination might ...

Between the binary code on a laptop monitor you can see the text "Hacked". (posed photo) Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images) After a major ...

Generative AI is accelerating password attacks against Active Directory, making credential abuse faster and more effective.

A government watchdog has published a scathing rebuke of the Department of the Interior’s cybersecurity posture, finding it was able to crack thousands of employee user accounts because the department ...