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 ...

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 ...

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, ' ...

For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters. It's an improvement that comes as more and more people are relying ...

reported that part of the source code of the password management application 'LastPass' was stolen by someone, and then in December 2022, LastPass finally confirmed that user data had been illegally ...

Choosing a difficult password might not be enough to protect our accounts in the future. We are admittedly often lax when it comes to choosing difficult-to-guess passwords, and we forget to change ...