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Nasty · 05-28-2013, 01:50 PM

This is pretty disturbing

During an experiment for Ars Technica hackers managed to crack 90% of 16,449 hashed passwords. Six passwords were cracked each minute including 16-character versions such as 'qeadzcwrsfxv1331'

A 25-computer cluster that can cracks passwords by making 350 billion guesses per second. It was unveiled in December by Jeremi Gosney, the founder and CEO of Stricture Consulting Group. It can try every possible Windows passcode in the typical enterprise in less than six hours to get plain-text passwords from lists of hashed passwords.

The article
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ords-hour.html

05-28-2013, 01:50 PM
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