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 ...

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 ...

Passwords with dozens of characters are supposed to be a natural defense against hackers, because they’re that much harder to crack compared to short passwords. But not anymore. As Ars Technica ...

The popular password-cracking app Hashcat has “upgraded” to passwords up to 55 characters - meaning that long passwords (for instance those made up of sentences), can be cracked far more quickly.

According to SEVN-X, NVIDIA GPUs for commercially available desktop PCs are the most cost-effective for building rigs specialized for password cracking. Also, in terms of Hashcat performance, ' ...

Hashcat creator Jens Steube accidentally discovered a new method to break into network routers while researching new ways to attack the new WPA3 security standard. He stumbled onto an attack technique ...