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 ...

His wife locks up all his porn on a Windows machine that only she knows the password to. That’s why Adam came up with a guide to easily crack a Windows password using the Ophcrack Live CD.

Alright, so let's crack some passwords I've constructed to see how easy it is. To do this, I will use Hashcat, a free and open-source password cracker available for anyone to use.

Passwords continue to be the primary target of cybercriminals because they represent the “keys to your kingdom”, especially when it comes to your email.

The measure of how difficult it is to crack a password is called its strength. This generally refers to the number of attempts that an attacker needs to guess a password successfully. Computer ...

Other password hacking techniques Brute force is just one of many methods hackers use to crack passwords, which is why it’s so important to use a different long password for each of your online ...

Click to viewExtremely impressed at the ease and speed with which the Ophcrack Live CD cracked my Windows admin password when I tested it out last a few weeks ago, I thought it might be useful to ...

Technology blogger Amit Agarwal has written up a simple guide to opening up password-protected PDF documents. Just as a quick disclaimer: this should only be used in appropriate circumstances ...