Updating your password to be longer and contain a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols can increase the time it takes a hacker to crack it even as password encryption measures improve, according ...

If a password has been previously stolen, uses dictionary words, or has been reused between websites, the time needed to crack it drops dramatically, as shown below.

Looking at all the common passwords, Home Security Heroes found that 81% of them could be cracked in less than a month, 71% in less than a day, 65% in less than an hour, and 51% in less than a ...

Hackers can crack weak passwords in seconds, while strong ones may take years. Learn about the time to crack your password and boost security.

There are other services that can crack WPA using rentable cloud infrastructure, such as WPACracker, which uses its processor cluster to use dictionary attacks to crack Wi-Fi passwords.