It’s our understanding that the video game industry has long been a driving force in new and better graphics processing hardware. But they’re not the only benefactors to these advances. As we’ve heard ...

Many of today’s computer passwords are stored and transmitted in a cryptographic hashed form. A strong password hash algorithm ensures that if the password hash is obtained by unauthorized parties ...

I remember when the Lopht introduced their password-cracking program for Windows, L0phtcrack. The Lopht claimed that Microsoft’s LAN Manager authentication protocol was weak and could be attacked ...

and enforcing that policy is useless if you authenticate and locally store easily cracked password files. By default, Windows NT, 2000, and XP locally store legacy LAN Manager (LM) password hashes ...

A Swiss university lecturer has applied and refined a 20 year old password cracking technique to enable him to crack alphanumeric Windows password hashes in a matter of seconds. The technique involves ...

It doesn’t matter what your super-unguessable password is. The arms race between the security and hacker communities has produced a devastating new device capable of tearing through lesser password ...

Plug in the power and Ethernet and this Raspberry Pi board will automatically collect Windows hashes from computers on the network. With a couple of RPi boards on hand [Travis] was searching for more ...