If you didn’t already believe that weak passwords could be cracked easily, artificial intelligence is here to prove the point definitively. An AI-driven tool cracked over half the passwords fed to it in under a minute – and 65 percent in under an hour.
The experiment, which was run by cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes,to generate passwords, and the other taught to distinguish between the first’s ‘fake’ passwords and passwords taken from real data breaches. As it’s trained, this kind of generative adaptive network learns to offer more sophisticated password predictions, allowing for faster and widespread cracking.
