How to Securely Onboard New Employees Without Sharing Temporary Passwords

The initial onboarding stage is a crucial step for both employees and employers. However, this process often involves the practice of sharing temporary first-day passwords, which can expose organizations to security risks. Traditionally, IT departments have been cornered into either sharing...

A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing: PassGAN

State-of-the-art password guessing tools, such as HashCat and John the Ripper JTR, enable users to check billions of passwords per second against password hashes. In addition to straightforward dictionary attacks, these tools can expand dictionaries using password generation rules. Although these...

Deep-Learning PassGAN Tool Improves Password Guessing

Artificial intelligence and deep learning are creeping into information security, and one of the early applications of those approaches has emerged and is focused on passwords. Researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology and the New York Institute of Technology have recently published so...