As full-disk encryption becomes increasingly used to protect data, new software tools that can recover lost passwords or change forgotten ones are being released. Full-disk encryption will protect ...

One of the biggest security threats is password cracking. Are you an IT system administrator concerned about the security of your organization's data? In this article, we'll provide an overview of ...

There is a new tool offensive security teams can use for their password cracking needs. CrackQ is open-source and can provide metrics on the current jobs, queuing and re-queuing tasks. CrackQ is an ...

Security researchers have uncovered the truth behind software that’s being advertised as a way to unlock industrial terminals without a password — it’s actually a malware dropper. The malware can ...

Cybersecurity firm Home Security Heroes published a study about AI and its ability to crack passwords. A new AI password cracking tool is capable of cracking a majority of six-character passwords and ...

It's official: The famous password-cracking tool L0phtCrack is back, and its creators plan to keep it that way. L0phtCrack 6 tool, released Wednesday, was developed in 1997 by Christien Rioux, Chris ...

My special hate-pet are sites that force you to change the password every 90 days or so. While I can remember a small handful of 1password-generated logins, it takes time to do so. Forcing people to ...

Security services firm Trustwave has released an open source project aimed at companies that want to provide password-cracking as a service to their security teams and red teams, the company announced ...