For every lovely, life-affirming application of AI, there’s at least one adversarial, uh-oh-inducing one. This one’s the latter.
Cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes put an AI-powered password-cracking tool called PassGAN to the test against 15m+ passwords.
It cracked 51% of them in under a minute.
By month’s end, it had worked out 81% of the list.
Uh-oh.
Before you reset every password you’ve ever had, remember that usage of PassGAN isn’t widespread — and could also be used to generate crack-proof passwords.
Still, Home Security Heroes recommends stronger passwords with 15+ characters that avoid patterns like “1234.”
