• Farewell to brute force cracking, AI has become a “new toy” for hackers

    Regular passwords, cracked in one minute   AI is a double-edged sword.   It can be a good helper for security engineers to find potential security threats and fix vulnerabilities, and it can also be a weapon for hackers to launch large-scale network attacks.   This is not unfounded worry.   Not long ago, the network security company HomeSecurityHeroes released a report saying that using a new AI tool called PassGAN, 51% of conventional passwords can be cracked in less than 1 minute.   Password cracking has been around for a long time, how is the end of AI different? The difficulty of password cracking has dropped, should ordinary people panic? In the age of…

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