Hashcat is a popular and effective password cracker widely used by both penetration testers and sysadmins, as well as criminals and spies. At its most basic level, hashcat guesses a password ...

Hashcat and other password-cracking methods may be used in a variety of attacks that profit from predictable human behavior that often results in lax security measures.

Long passwords alone just won't cut it in now that the latest Hashcat update can crack 55 character passwords in relatively short order.

In a detailed longform piece, Anderson describes his journey into the world of script kiddies, using a program called Hashcat to crack a list of passwords left circulating online after an earlier ...

Whether you need to recover the lost password to a Windows account, you're looking to ensure that your passwords are secure, or you're a super l33t h4x0r, the Ophcrack Live CD is a pretty useful ...

“thereisnofatebutwhat­wemake”—Turbo-charged cracking comes to long passwords Cracking really long passwords just got a whole lot faster and easier.

Why hacked Blizzard passwords aren’t as hard to crack as company says A significant percentage of Blizzard passwords may already be in hackers' hands.