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 ...

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.

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 ...

Why it matters: Security researcher and password cracker Sam Croley posted benchmarks highlighting the RTX 4090's password-cracking muscle. Nvidia's newest flagship GPU shattered the RTX 3090's ...

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 ...

The ocl-Hashcat-plus version of the password cracker has previously been limited to solving sequences of up to 15 characters. This quicker variation of Hashcat and Hashcat-lite, released over the ...

Jens Steube—who is better known as Atom, as the pseudonymous developer of the popular Hashcat password-recovery program—figured out a way to remove identical computations that are performed ...

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