Joshua Wright, the systems engineer who created a tool that targets wireless LANs protected by Cisco Systems Inc.’s Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol (LEAP), said he did so to demonstrate ...

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 ...

If your Web site (or a portion of it) requires a user to login and be authenticated, then the odds are good that a hacker has tried to break into it. Here’s why: Hackers are well aware that anything ...

There is an epidemic of weak passwords being reused by people, and we are still using lazy patterns like 123456, which makes it easier not only for cybercriminals to crack them but lead to “dictionary ...

One of the most successful forms of password breaches occurs when hackers simply guess commonly used passwords. And while organizations often invest in advanced security measures, they sometimes ...