For example, a 10-character password made up of numbers would take one hour to crack. Meanwhile, upping that number-only password to 18 characters will increase the time frame to 11,000 years.

For instance, a password made of 13 numbers would take the graphics cards 3 years to crack, but add in just one more number and that rises to 28 years, then add another and it rises to 284.

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In fact, if your password is under 10 characters, it’ll only take 2 weeks to crack. Simple 10-character passwords made up of just numbers or lowercase letters can be cracked in under 24 hours.

Compared to 2024, the time it takes to crack passwords with graphics processing units (GPUs) for the consumer sector has decreased by almost 20 percent. An eight-character password consisting of ...

Such is the finding of Hive Systems, a cybersecurity firm based in Virginia, as part of the research that went into its 2025 password table. (Hat tip to HotHardware for spotting the news.) The ...

Updating your password to be longer and contain a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols can increase the time it takes a hacker to crack it even as password encryption measures improve, according to ...

When the team made their first password table in 2020, they based their time estimates on a 2018 GPU (the RTX 2080 graphics card) and the security 'best practices' for 2018, (MD5 hashing).

Updating your password to be longer and contain a mix of letters, numbers, and symbols can increase the time it takes a hacker to crack it even as password encryption measures improve, according to ...

For instance, a password made of 13 numbers would take the graphics cards 3 years to crack, but add in just one more number and that rises to 28 years, then add another and it rises to 284. AI ...