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 ...

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.

Long passwords alone just won't cut it in now that the latest Hashcat update can crack 55 character passwords in relatively short order.

Dougherty then uses a mix of the password-cracking software hashcat and a program he built, called expandpass, which runs through varying, controlled permutations of specific words and symbols ...

In a detailed longform piece, Anderson describes his journey into the world of script kiddies, using a program called Hashcat to crack a list of passwords left circulating online after an earlier ...