Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. There are plenty of lists of horror passwords. Those that are too ...

Those of you who use Microsoft Authenticator as a password manager will have to find another option, and soon. That's because an upcoming change will pull the plug on the ability to use the ...

The hash rate measures the computational power of the Bitcoin blockchain network and other PoW cryptocurrencies, determined by the number of guesses made per second. The significance of hash rate in a ...

The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration. Only he wasn’t ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Although you might think you are on top of the whole password ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. What is so special about it? Another cryptographic algorithm with a fancy name added to your list of things to ...

The quest to make biometric data private and secure has led to the development of biometric hashing. Hashing is a one-way process in which an algorithm called a cryptographic hash function takes an ...