Our mission for this week's Community Byte was to create a Python program to crack web-based passwords, like the ones you would see on an email or router login. I wanted it to be universal in the ...

Meet PassGAN, the supposedly “terrifying” AI password cracker that’s mostly hype AI cracking is on par with conventional methods, but you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

My journey into the Dark-ish Side began during a chat with our security editor, Dan Goodin, who remarked in an offhand fashion that cracking passwords was approaching entry-level "script kiddie ...