From zero-day exploits to polymorphic malware, today’s organizations must protect themselves against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. But while these types of complex attack vectors may be ...

One of the worrying aspects is the growing usage of language models and AI in general to organize cyberattacks. AI is increasingly being used not only to scam people, but also to brute force passwords ...

What would be the easiest way to stop a brute force password attack if the login is known?<BR><BR>Say when a user hits submit in a password page, the next page determines if the password entered is ...

Security researcher Thomas Roth told Reuters that he will show off his findings at the Black Hat conference in Washington, D.C., next week. Roth claims that he used Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2 ...

I was wondering if anyone knew of a brute force program that could try to mount a true crypt drive and accept keyfiles provided to it?<BR><BR>I have my TrueCrypt USB drive and I wanted to try and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. With just a few dollars, a little time, and a smart ...

Popular source code repository service GitHub has recently been hit by a brute-force password-guessing attack that successfully compromised some accounts. “We sent an email to users with compromised ...

A new Go-based botnet malware named 'GoTrim' is scanning the web for self-hosted WordPress websites and attempting to brute force the administrator's password and take control of the site. This ...

Windows 11 22H2, currently available for Windows Insiders in the Windows Insider program, comes with a massive list of new features and changes. Some of those improvements are not visible at first ...

The number of “brute force” attacks on small and midsize companies has risen dramatically in the past few months, according to Houston-based Alert Logic Inc., an on-demand IT network security company ...

Brute-forcing passwords, as well as the exploit of ProxyLogon vulnerabilities against Microsoft Exchange Server, were among the most popular attack vectors last year. According to ESET's Q3 Threat ...