Hashcat is a popular and effective password cracker widely used by both penetration testers and sysadmins, as well as criminals and spies. Cracking passwords is different from guessing a web login ...

In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars Technica deputy editor and a self-admitted newbie to password cracking, downloaded a list of more than 16,000 cryptographically hashed passcodes.

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 ...