cracking

It’s neither hard nor expensive: Unlike password authentication, which requires a direct match between what is inputted and what’s stored in a database, fingerprint authentication determines a match using a reference threshold ...

This is the result of a security audit: More than a fifth of the passwords protecting network accounts at the US Department of the Interior—including Password1234, Password1234!, and ChangeItN0w!—were weak enough to ...

Here’s an article from last year’s Scientific American: The Mathematics of (Hacking) Passwords. If you remember your logarithms, it’s a decent read. If you don’t, you can skip the math and read ...

While researching my next edition of Elementary Information Security I came a this posting from last January. It comes from the “netmux” web site and describes a $5,000 design for a password ...