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DCIG, Thursday, May 18,2023

Time Taken For Hackers To Crack Passwords Revealed

Vol 302 · Issue 3 · 2023-05-18

New Specops Software research has unearthed the length of time it takes modern attackers to brute force user passwords. Plain text password storage is rare in these modern times, requiring attackers to adopt password cracking methods to make use of the majority of (hashed) password leaks.

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Time Taken For Hackers To Crack Passwords Revealed