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.

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 ...

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.

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

Hashcat uses several different algorithms to try and crack output from password hashing tools, and version 6.2.6 of the software was used in benchmark mode to assess the capabilities of the new ...

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 ...

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