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.

Hashcat and oclHashcat are popular tools used by penetration testers and security experts for advanced password recovery and cracking. The tools are based on both CPUs and GPUs and are available ...

Marcta uses a password cracking tool called Hashcat . The gateway to get the data is the LastPass Chrome extension.

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 ...

What this means in practical terms is that someone wishing to crack or recover an eight-character password with a rig featuring an octet of RTX 4090 cards, can reliably do so in under 50 minutes.

A blackhat will use hashcat in a similar manner. He will either have stolen the passwords or have got them from the original hacker. He will use hashcat in a similar fashion against the list of ...

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.

You need to start using 2FA and a password manager since the latest research shows how much faster Nvidia’s RTX 4090 is at cracking passwords.

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

This quicker variation of Hashcat and Hashcat-lite, released over the weekend, has the potential to crack passwords of up to 64 characters -- depending on the hash being targeted.