From zero-day exploits to polymorphic malware, today’s organizations must protect themselves against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. But while these types of complex attack vectors may be ...

Weak passwords and unresolved vulnerabilities are said to be to blame as the Federal Bureau of Investigation issues a new warning about threat actors using brute-force credential cracking tactics as ...

Brute force cracking of passwords takes longer now than in the past, but the good news is not a cause for celebration, according to the latest annual audit of password cracking times released Tuesday ...

Security researcher Thomas Roth told Reuters that he will show off his findings at the Black Hat conference in Washington, D.C., next week. Roth claims that he used Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 ...

A company that makes a password cracking tool says that a new vulnerability found in the Mac T2 chip allows it to brute force passwords and decrypt a device. Apple's T2 chip, among other features, ...

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I was wondering if anyone knew of a brute force program that could try to mount a true crypt drive and accept keyfiles provided to it?<BR><BR>I have my TrueCrypt USB drive and I wanted to try and ...

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. “We sent an email to users with compromised ...

Kingston Digital, Inc., the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, today announced the launch of the next-generation ...

What would be the easiest way to stop a brute force password attack if the login is known?<BR><BR>Say when a user hits submit in a password page, the next page determines if the password entered is ...

The number of “brute force” attacks on small and midsize companies has risen dramatically in the past few months, according to Houston-based Alert Logic Inc., an on-demand IT network security company ...