First released in 1996, John the Ripper (JtR) is a password cracking tool originally produced for UNIX-based systems. It was designed to test password strength, brute-force encrypted (hashed) ...

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 ...

Chances are you need to change your password. No matter how long it is. Over the weekend, the free password cracking and recovery tool oclHashcat-plus released a new version, 0.15, that can handle ...

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 ...

USB Cleaver is an Android tool that can silently extract every relevant username and password from a Windows PC, but whether this makes it malware or a useful tool largely depends on your point of ...

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 ...

Are you trying to open a password-protected PDF or ZIP file? Then, you already know how frustrating it can be. You try out different tools, and the result is a ...

So mom forgot her password for a Word 2007 .doc file. Any suggestions for password cracker. I realize I can google word password recovery and I have. Just wondering which one people around here I've ...