Concerns about the vulnerabilities of passwords are not new, and there have been recent moves to pivot to other secure alternatives, such as passkeys. A recent report has further highlighted that need ...

GPU cracking speed: Kaspersky found RTX 5090 GPUs can try 219.5 billion MD5 password guesses per second, cracking 48% in under a minute. MD5’s fatal flaw: Designed for speed, MD5 enables rapid ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Graphics cards and the software surrounding them are not a new ...

Cybersecurity company, Hive Systems, has just put out its 2025 Password Table as a continuation of its yearly analysis of how difficult passwords are to crack. The results are in, and while it's not ...