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.

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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 ...

If you've ever watched TV and movies about cybersecurity, you probably envision someone sitting in a dark room trying to guess someone else's password based on a few facts like their kids' names or ...