Or should I say, passwords are no good any more.
The whole idea of passwords is that they are encoded in a hash file and a brute force crack of the hash file would take so long that your password was safe.
It seems someone has written a brute force crack which uses the processor on a video card which has super fast ram and a lot of grunt to boot. Previously a 7 character password took a CPU 4days to crack via a brute force attack, a GPU takes just over 17 minutes.
Don't panic just yet, they need the password hash file first, however that files is normally readable by anyone as no one expected this sort of speed being available for an attack. I wonder if this is how playstation went under.
We live in an amazing age ...
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