If you have a password as simple as "12345" or "password," it would take hacker just .29 milliseconds to crack it, according to an interactive website from BetterBuys. Using data benchmarks from Intel ...

The reason that passwords are easy to break, crack and hack has always been because of the people that come up with them.

Stealing passwords is one of the oldest moves in hackers’ book. Ever since Internet accounts have existed, people have been trying to break into them. Password scavengers have been remarkably ...

Phil Dougherty has a side hustle as a friendly hacker. By day, he's a software developer at the University of Wisconsin, building free educational games and conducting research on the ways people play ...