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 ...

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 ...

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 latest version of hashcat, oclHashcat-plus v0.15, was released over the weekend. It is, says lead developer Jens Steube under the handle Atom, “the result of over 6 months of work, having modified ...

Major password-cracking tool, Hashcat, found a simpler way to hack your WPA/WPA2 enabled Wi-Fi networks. Here’s what businesses need to know. A new strategy has been found that easily obtains the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Compute power surrounding datacenter AI GPUs keeps growing at an extraordinary pace with each new GPU generation. This led a research team at Specops to test whether some popular AI GPUs could also ...