Sam Croley, a security researcher, tweeted about the card's power for this task, as measured by benchmarks done using HashCat, a password-cracking tool.

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

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 ...

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 is a freely available password cracker. It is clearly a dual-purpose weapon: it can be used by security auditors to stress-test company passwords, and it can be used by criminals to crack ...

This quicker variation of Hashcat and Hashcat-lite, released over the weekend, has the potential to crack passwords of up to 64 characters -- depending on the hash being targeted.

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 ...