Just in time for World Password Day, Kaspersky is reminding everyone that outdated hashing algorithms such as MD5 remain among the worst choices for storing passwords.

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GPU cracking speeds: Kaspersky found RTX 5090 cards can guess 219.5 billion MD5 hashes per second, breaking 48% of passwords in under a minute. Why MD5 fails: Designed for speed, MD5 enables ...

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Google has shown the way: You can offer typical Office programs such as word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation programs online. Free of charge and with a range of functions that is completely ...

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble files—making, or at least claiming, that it is protected against attacks by quantum ...

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