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 V.6.2.6, the benchmark, is a well-known password-cracking tool that is best used by system administrators and cybersecurity experts to verify or speculate about user passwords in very ...

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.

However, thanks to the updated password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus, even more complex combinations are unlikely to protect targeted data.

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 ...

When Mr. Marcta tried to crack the password using the MacBook Air, he succeeded in attacking 1100 times per second and was able to crack the Vault of the account that used a password that could be ...