NationStates, a multiplayer browser-based game, has confirmed a data breach after taking its website offline earlier this week to investigate a security incident.

A hash is a mathematical function that transforms input data of any size into a fixed-length string of characters. This output is called a hash value or hash code. Hash functions generate a unique ...

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 ...

A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions. The “secure enough” ...

The big picture: People are often advised to create complex passwords using random lower and uppercase letters, symbols, and numbers to prevent brute-force attacks. However, a new report suggests that ...

Hive Systems conducts another study on cracking passwords via brute-force attacks, but it’s no longer targeting MD5. Cybersecurity firm Hive Systems has released the results of its latest annual ...

Hashcat is a free and open-source password cracking utility that supports more than 200 algorithms out of the box. Hashcat is primarily designed to crack password hashes, but it’s also used for other ...