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Eight RTX 4090s Can Break Passwords in Under an Hour [View all]
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/eight-rtx-4090s-can-break-passwords-in-under-an-hourEight RTX 4090s Can Break Passwords in Under an Hour
By Francisco Pires
published about 18 hours ago
Even faster if it's still "password"
Security researcher Sam Croley took to Twitter to share just how incredible Nvidia's new RTX 4090 really is... at cracking passwords. It turns out it's twice as fast as the previous leader, the RTX 3090, at breaking one of your passwords — even when faced off against Microsoft's New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol and the Bcrypt password-hacking function.
Essentially, this means that any wealthy gamer sporting the RTX 4090 can crack an average password in a matter of days — and that's if you follow good password-setting practices (and most of us definitely don't).
The benchmark, HashCat V.6.2.6., is a renowned password-cracking tool that lays best in the hands of system administrators and cybersecurity professionals (of which Croley was a core programmer, by the way). It allows researchers to test or guess user passwords in the few situations that might require it.
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Relax — not every RTX 4090 owner will turn their top-tier graphics card towards a password-cracking pastime. Additionally, the password-cracking ease of tools such as HashCat are usually deployed against offline assets, not online ones. This means that the chances of your PC being the target of a deranged RTX 4090-owner cracking passwords at will are slim — so slim they're almost nonexistent.
[...]
By Francisco Pires
published about 18 hours ago
Even faster if it's still "password"
Security researcher Sam Croley took to Twitter to share just how incredible Nvidia's new RTX 4090 really is... at cracking passwords. It turns out it's twice as fast as the previous leader, the RTX 3090, at breaking one of your passwords — even when faced off against Microsoft's New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) authentication protocol and the Bcrypt password-hacking function.
Essentially, this means that any wealthy gamer sporting the RTX 4090 can crack an average password in a matter of days — and that's if you follow good password-setting practices (and most of us definitely don't).
The benchmark, HashCat V.6.2.6., is a renowned password-cracking tool that lays best in the hands of system administrators and cybersecurity professionals (of which Croley was a core programmer, by the way). It allows researchers to test or guess user passwords in the few situations that might require it.
[...]
Relax — not every RTX 4090 owner will turn their top-tier graphics card towards a password-cracking pastime. Additionally, the password-cracking ease of tools such as HashCat are usually deployed against offline assets, not online ones. This means that the chances of your PC being the target of a deranged RTX 4090-owner cracking passwords at will are slim — so slim they're almost nonexistent.
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