Time to tighten up your password complexity, dear readers. A deep learning password guessing tool called PassGAN has been found to take less than six minutes to crack your seven-character password, ...

There was an interesting post to the BugTraq mailing list this week by InfoWorld columnist Roger Grimes. He’s challenging people to break his NT password hash that is 10 characters long. The winner ...

An OIG investigation found that the Interior Department has not fully implemented multifactor authentication and that its “outdated and ineffective” password requirements leave employees’ accounts ...

In case anyone can't tell yet at this point, I'm a really noob sysadmin... We have two main GPs, the Default Domain Policy and a more general policy. Our AD objects are separated by computers and ...

On older Solaris systems, you would only see a few tunable parameters for controlling passwords. MINWEEKS determined the number of weeks that a user was required to ...

With a rash of recent cyberattacks on Iowa hospitals, schools and companies large and small, it’s recommended we consider abandoning the use of passwords and instead, switch to using pass phrases.