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  • Password Series: 8 Practical First Steps to Crack Difficult Passwords

    Password Series: 8 Practical First Steps to Crack Difficult Passwords in Penetration Tests

    By Ryan Chaplin From rulesets & hardware to wordlists and mask attacks, Lead Penetration Tester Ryan Chaplin shows how to crack difficult password hashes in penetration tests. February 25, 2025
  • Password Series: Defeating Emerging Password Security Trends with Psudohash

    Password Series: Defeating Emerging Password Security Trends with Psudohash for Penetration Testing

    By Ryan Chaplin Lead Pentester Ryan Chaplin discusses emerging improvements in password security and how Psudohash can help bypass them on penetration tests. November 5, 2024
  • Cool Tools Series: MSFvenom

    Cool Tools Series: How MSFvenom Powers Penetration Testing

    By Nathan Anderson Nathan Anderson intros MSFvenom, a Metasploit tool that generates & encodes payloads to obtain reverse shells & gain network access for penetration testing. October 8, 2024
  • Cool Tools Series: Nuclei

    Cool Tools Series: Nuclei for Penetration Tests

    By Andrew Trexler Raxis’ Andrew Trexler shows how useful Nuclei is for network and application penetration tests, discovering vulnerabilities such as default passwords and more. September 10, 2024
  • Password Length: More than Just a Question of Compliance

    Password Length: More than Just a Question of Compliance

    By Brian Tant Password length requirements are a key part of password security, but, with PCI, NIST, OWASP, and CIS offering different recommendations, what length is best? June 4, 2024
  • SQL Injection Attack

    SQLi Series: SQL Timing Attacks for Penetration Testing

    By Andrew Trexler Andrew Trexler’s SQLi Series is back, demonstrating SQL Timing Attacks using MySQL’s sleep function in Blind SQL Injection attacks for penetration testing. May 7, 2024