If you’re still a LastPass customer by now, you should consider ditching the password manager app the first chance you get. Well, that’s after Christmas or the holidays because that’s what most people are concerned about right now. And it’s now that LastPass decided to announce that hackers who breached its systems have been able…
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 graphics card is a bit of a dab hand when it comes to the power and brute force needed to crack passwords, it would seem. As Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab) reports, this comes from a security researcher, Sam Croley, who tweeted about the RTX 4090’s muscle for this task, as…
Security researcher Sam Croley took to Twitter to share just how incredible Nvidia’s new RTX 4090 really is… at cracking passwords. It turns out it’s twice as fast as the previous leader, the RTX 3090, at breaking one of your passwords — even when faced off against Microsoft’s New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol…
Passwords… we keep coming back to this incredibly sophisticated technology that can also be the Achilles’ Heel of everything you do online. We have all sorts of smart apps to help us create and store unique and strong passwords on our devices, just as tech companies try to eliminate passwords for good. It turns out…
Getting your Raspberry Pi project online is now cheaper and easier thanks to the $6 Raspberry Pi Pico W. It only takes five lines of code to connect your Raspberry Pi Pico W to the world, but sharing your code can leave you open to a few security concerns. Your MicroPython code now contains your…
How many of your passwords have been compromised? And how many of those passwords have you actually taken the time to change? Depending on how many internet accounts you maintain, making sure that every password is safe can be a full-time job. That’s why Google Assistant is gaining the ability to change your passwords for…
Your Windows laptop remembers every Wi-Fi network you’ve ever accessed with it and the associated network password. That’s a huge convenience when you walk back into the same coffee shop or hotel you’ve visited before and your system connects right away, without even asking you for credentials. But what happens if you want to take…
AMD has divulged details about a chipset vulnerability that can allow non-privileged users to read and dump some types of memory pages in Windows. This technique allows an attacker to steal passwords or enable other types of attacks, including circumventing standard KASLR exploitation (aka Spectre and Meltdown) mitigations (via TheRecord). Word of the bug came…
For the past few years, Microsoft has been predicting a future where you don’t need a password, thanks to the use of verification codes, biometric identifiers or authentication apps. Today, the company is putting its money where its mouth is and allowing you to take the password off your Microsoft account. Those who opt out…
