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 and oclHashcat are popular ...

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 ...

A threat actor is infecting industrial control systems (ICS) to create a botnet through password "cracking" software for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Advertised on various social media ...

It takes a mere .25 milliseconds to crack passwords such as “123456”, “qwerty” or “password” — examples of some of the worst, most common passwords used last year. Although password policies at ...

Siemens S7 programmable logic controllers, the same PLC family exploited by the Stuxnet malware, are in the crosshairs of a password-cracking tool that is capable of stealing credentials from ...

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 ...

Threat actors are targeting systems in industrial control environments with backdoor malware hidden in fake password-cracking tools. The tools, being touted for sale on a variety of social media ...

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 ...

Some people pay little attention when there’s a new password cracker because they think along the “bite me” lines of “big deal ‘cause I have a 30-character password securing my account; good luck ...

The usually staid world of professional-grade flight simulations was rocked by controversy over the weekend, with fans accusing mod developer FlightSimLabs (FSLabs) of distributing “malware” with an ...