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2013

• Ars Technica – Why you should take hacked sites’ password assurances with a grain of salt
• Ars Technica – Dating site Zoosk resets some user accounts following password dump
• Ars Technica – Puzzle box: The quest to crack the world’s most mysterious malware warhead
• The Sydney Morning Herald – Cracks widen in ABC website security
• Techweb – When Security Experts Forget Passwords
• InformationWeek – What happens when you forget a crucial password?
• Ars Technica – How a security ninja cracked the password guarding his most valued assets
• WhiteHat Security Blog – Cracking AES-256 DMGs and Epic Self-Pwnage (Customer Testimonial)
• c't Magazin Issue 3/2013 – Knack mich, wenn du kannst: Die tools und techniken der Passwortknacker
• c't Magazin Issue 3/2013 – Die Passwortknacker: Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Cracker
• Deloitte – Technology, Media & Telecommunications Predictions 2013
• Point 2 Security – The Two Sides of Cracking Passwords
• RSA Speaking of Security – Secure Crypto: Cluster Cracker
• Security Nirvana – Passwords^12 In Summary

2012

• IBM – IBM X-Force 2012 Mid-year Trend & Risk Report
• NBC News – 8-character passwords just got a lot easier to crack
• CNET – No password is safe from this new 25-GPU computer cluster
• ZDNet – 25 GPUs devour password hashes at up to 348 billion per second
• Hak5 – Episode 1218 – Extreme GPU Password Cracking and Home Theater PC Builds
• Security Now – Episode 381 – Your Questions, Steve's Answers #156
• Threat Wire – Episode 6 – Cracking Passwords
• Ars Technica – Oh great: New attack makes some password cracking faster, easier than ever
• Thawte – Security Researcher Develops New Password Cracking Cluster
• Ars Technica – 25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours
• Sophos Naked Security – Windows passwords: "Dead in Six Hours"
• The Register – GPU-stuffed monster cracks Windows passwords in minutes
• HPC Wire – GPU Monster Shreds Password Hashes
• Huffington Post – 7 Things that Became Obsolete This Year
• Gizmodo – The Hardware Hackers Use to Crack Your Passwords
• Techspot – 25-GPU cluster can brute force Windows password in record time
• Homeland Security Today – Obituary: The Password. The password died on Dec. 3 in Oslo, Norway
• Kaspersky Securelist – Hot Topic in Icy Country
• Security Now – Episode 366 – The Death of "Clever"
• Ars Technica – Why passwords have never been weaker — and crackers have never been stronger
• SecureID News – As password habits stagnate, password hackers thrive
• The Next Web – Data from the Anonymous attack on oil companies may have been faked
• Dagens IT – Er dette ditt passord?