One of the worrying aspects is the growing usage of language models and AI in general to organize cyberattacks. AI is increasingly being used not only to scam people, but also to brute force passwords ...

Imagine having unlimited attempts to guess someone’s username and password without getting caught. That would make an ideal scenario for a stealthy threat actor—leaving server admins with little to no ...

A piece of malware designed to launch brute-force password guessing attacks against websites built with popular content management systems like WordPress and Joomla has started being used to also ...

A brute force password-hacking campaign led by Russian military intelligence tied to the group Fancy Bear has been targeting US and European organizations since mid-2019, said a joint advisory by the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. With just a few dollars, a little time, and a smart ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most Network admins or any basic server security expert knows that leaving the RDP or Remote Desktop Protocol Port open for the Internet or using a weak password makes the network vulnerable to ...

Length does matter (ha), but how you create and manage a password often matters just as much, if not more. A long password that's predictable or reused across accounts can still be cracked, leaked or ...

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 ...

Windows 11 22H2, currently available for Windows Insiders in the Windows Insider program, comes with a massive list of new features and changes. Some of those improvements are not visible at first ...