To determine how long it would take to crack 15,600,000 common passwords via artificial intelligence, Home Security Heroes enlisted an AI tool known as PassGAN.

Hackers can crack weak passwords in seconds, while strong ones may take years. Learn about the time to crack your password and boost security.

A simple eight-character password can be cracked in only 37 seconds using brute force but it takes over a century to crack a 16-character one.

Along with the positive aspects of the new generative AI services come new risks. One that’s surfaced is an advanced approach to cracking passwords called PassGAN. Using the latest AI, it was ...

Our mission for this week's Community Byte was to create a Python program to crack web-based passwords, like the ones you would see on an email or router login. I wanted it to be universal in the ...

Overall, the longer and the more complex the passwords, the longer it takes to crack them, with the most complex eight-character passwords taking 164 years.