{"id":9997,"date":"2012-12-12T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/all_windows_passwords_at_risk_and_what_to_do_about_it.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:43:24","slug":"all-windows-passwords-at-risk-and-what-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/all-windows-passwords-at-risk-and-what-to-do-about-it.html","title":{"rendered":"All Windows Passwords at Risk and What to do about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2012\/12\/25-gpu-cluster-cracks-every-standard-windows-password-in-6-hours\/\">word out<\/a> that a 25-GPU cluster can crack every standard Windows password in less than 6 hours, it may be time for us to consider this new Securematrix technology from Japan championed by Itara Nishimura of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csessi.com\/\">CSE Co., Ltd<\/a>. His company makes a technology which uses a matrix of changing-numbers, allowing the user to use a known pattern to determine what their password will be for each login.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/securematrix.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2012\/12\/securematrix-thumb-500x282-12069.png\" alt=\"securematrix.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmc\/videos\/default.aspx?vid=7420&#038;title=Interview+with+Securematrix\">interviewed him<\/a> recently as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmc\/videos\/default.aspx?vid=7568&#038;title=Interview+with+ServerCentral\">Cloud Expo West 2012 video interview series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/tmc\/videos\/videoiframe.aspx?vid=7420&#038;width=450&#038;height=270\" width=\"450\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can a supercomputer hack this sort of password as well? Possibly but it does seem to make the endeavor that much more difficult. Of course, a multifactor system coupled with typical passwords or the sort described in this post would be far more effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the word out that a 25-GPU cluster can crack every standard Windows password in less than 6 hours, it may be time for us to consider this new Securematrix technology from Japan championed by Itara Nishimura of CSE Co., Ltd. His company makes a technology which uses a matrix of changing-numbers, allowing the user<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,156,118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19162,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/revisions\/19162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}