ChatGPT isn't good at generating secure passwords.

To determine the capability of popular AI models to act as your password generator, Irregular asked Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to generate 16-character, secure passwords that include special ...

That “strong” password from ChatGPT might already follow a pattern hackers know how to exploit ...

Researchers demo weaknesses affecting some of the most popular options Academics say they found a series of flaws affecting three popular password managers, all of which claim to protect user ...

Security firm Irregular analyzed outputs from tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, and found that many AI-generated passwords appear complex but are actually highly predictable ...

It might seem like a good idea at first, but it turns out that asking a generative AI (GenAI) model to generate a password for you is a bad idea. Research from cybersecurity firm Irregular found that ...

Seemingly complex strings are actually highly predictable, crackable within hours Generative AI tools are surprisingly poor at suggesting strong passwords, experts say.… AI security company Irregular ...

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...

Jeremiah Fowler, a veteran security researcher, recently stumbled upon 149,404,754 unique logins and passwords, totaling about 96GB of raw data. There was no encryption… and it didn’t even have a ...

However, new research suggests people are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini to generate ‘strong’ passwords for them.

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals ...