The password table generally simulates how long it would take to crack a password of various lengths and complexities using brute force, so to speak.

A simple eight-character password can be cracked in only 37 seconds using brute force but it takes over a century to crack a 16-character one.

Cybersecurity company, Hive Systems, has just put out its 2025 Password Table as a continuation of its yearly analysis of how difficult passwords are to crack. The results are in, and while it's ...

This type of password, according to a cybersecurity firm, is the least likely to be guessed — because it would take 463 quintillion years for a hacker to crack.

Stanford University's Password Hash plug-in helps customize a user's password for each site, putting a stop to Web spoofing.