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 ...

Create stronger, more secure passwords: We are nagged to do it all the time, but few of us actually make the effort. Meanwhile, passwords continue to be stolen, leaked, and cracked on a regular basis.

Creating a strong and unique password for each account you create is vital. But have you ever wondered how your strong ...

Years ago it was incredibly common for home wireless networks to be completely unsecured. That’s no longer the case, but it turns out that many are “secured” using woefully weak passwords. They’re so ...

A new technique has been discovered to easily retrieve the Pairwise Master Key Identifier (PMKID) from a router using WPA/WPA2 security, which can then be used to crack the wireless password of the ...

Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, and the New York Institute of Technology have devised what they claim is a highly effective way to guess passwords using a deep ...

You really shouldn’t be trying to manage your own passwords when high-performance graphics cards featuring GPUs as powerful as Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 4090 could be ...

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