The Hashcat password recovery tool and cracker is now available to developers under an open source license, sending the Github community into meltdown with the news. Hashcat and oclHashcat are popular ...

Hashcat is a popular and effective password cracker widely used by both penetration testers and sysadmins, as well as criminals and spies. Cracking passwords is different from guessing a web login ...

There is a new tool offensive security teams can use for their password cracking needs. CrackQ is open-source and can provide metrics on the current jobs, queuing and re-queuing tasks. CrackQ is an ...

Your hardware is ready. Now, let's load up some software and get cracking. In Part I of this series, I explained how password cracking works in general terms and ...

You've built the hardware, installed the software and cracked some passwords. Now find out how to fine-tune your attacks. In the first two parts of this series, I ...