Fortunately, there are simple ways to make passwords both hard-to-guess and easy-to-remember. Unfortunately, the technology industry sometimes gets in the way of using them. Here’s a rundown of ...

Passwords like “123456,” “Password1,” and “qwerty” aren't just common worldwide, they're ridiculously easy to crack, taking less than a second to unscramble.

Click here to see the world’s most common passwords and how long they take to crack Notably absent from this list is any password that includes symbols like hashtags and dashes.

Passwords continue to be the primary target of cybercriminals because they represent the “keys to your kingdom”, especially when it comes to your email.

Other password hacking techniques Brute force is just one of many methods hackers use to crack passwords, which is why it’s so important to use a different long password for each of your online ...

NordPass’s list of passwords was compiled in partnership with a third-party company specializing in data breach research. They evaluated a database that contained 275,699,516 passwords in total.

Researchers looked into a new AI-powered password-cracking tool called PassGAN to see just how fast it could compromise passwords.

For example, a 10-character password made up of numbers would take one hour to crack. Meanwhile, upping that number-only password to 18 characters will increase the time frame to 11,000 years.

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 ...

If a password cracker were able to make 1,000 guesses a second, it would need about a month to run all combinations of a four-character password, and over 53,000 years to run all the combinations ...