Can you crack a Cisco IOS MD5 password hash? [I'm in beautiful Ottawa this week. All the locals kept telling me how beautiful it was today, since it was nearly Spring like with temps almost at 0 ...

The MD5 algorithm has a new vulnerability: Google! Here’s a piece of news that will worry anyone interested in security (which should be pretty much everyone who reads Network World): A programmer by ...

In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars Technica deputy editor and a self-admitted newbie to password cracking, downloaded a list of more than 16,000 cryptographically hashed passcodes.

Cambridge University researcher Steven Murdoch successfully used Google to help crack a password used by an attacker who had hacked into his blog a few weeks ago and created a user account. After he ...