Brute force attacks are different in that they will cycle through every possible combination of characters (e.g., aaaaaaa, aaaaaab, aaaaaac, aaaaaad, etc.), rather than employing a dictionary list.

Two vulnerabilities in the photo-sharing service allowed hackers to brute-force their way into user accounts.

The attack consists of five key stages that allow a bad actor to leverage already compromised websites to launch distributed brute force attacks against thousands of other potential victim sites.

Now you should be ready to get cracking, but as you'll find, the world of password cracking can get pretty dense, pretty quickly. In my next and final part of the series, I will discuss how you can ...

For something as dynamic and flexible as password cracking, FPGAs are less than optimal. FPGAs do not provide the flexibility needed to support multi-hash, multi-algorithm, and multi-attack modes.

So, for instance, if you wanted to do a thorough brute-force attack against the above password policy, you would have 62 characters in your character set (A–Za–z0–9) and with an eight-character ...