Why 8-Character Passwords Are No Longer Enough: Lessons from the Raxis Password Cracker
With the start of 2026, the Raxis team is already busy. A new upgrade to our password-cracking system shows how quickly 8-character passwords can be cracked.
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Wireless Series: Using Wifite to Capture and Crack a WPA2 Pre-Shared Key for Penetration Testing
Principal Penetration Tester Scottie Cole begins our wireless penetration testing series with capturing and cracking a WPA2 Pre-Shared Key using Wifite.
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Cool Tools Series: CeWL for Penetration Testing
Lead Penetration Tester Jason Taylor discusses how the CeWL Custom Word List generator can improve hashcat results for penetration testing.
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Password Series: 8 Practical First Steps to Crack Difficult Passwords in Penetration Tests
From rulesets & hardware to wordlists and mask attacks, Lead Penetration Tester Ryan Chaplin shows how to crack difficult password hashes in penetration tests.
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Password Series: Defeating Emerging Password Security Trends with Psudohash for Penetration Testing
Lead Pentester Ryan Chaplin discusses emerging improvements in password security and how Psudohash can help bypass them on penetration tests.
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Password Length: More than Just a Question of Compliance
Password length requirements are a key part of password security, but, with PCI, NIST, OWASP, and CIS offering different recommendations, what length is best?
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AD Series: How to Perform Broadcast Attacks Using NTLMRelayx, MiTM6 and Responder for Penetration Tests
Andrew Trexler continues his AD Series with an in-depth tutorial on broadcast Attacks using NTLMRelayx, MiTM6 and Responder for penetration tests.
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How to Create an AD Test Environment to Use for Penetration Testing
Andrew Trexler walks us through creating a simple AD test environment to test new hacks before trying them on a penetration test.
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Understanding the Why Behind Password Management
In this video, Raxis CTO Brian Tant explains why password mismanagement is still one of the most reliable ways to breach a company network and what you can do to secure your network.
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3 Steps You Should Take Right Now to Reduce Your Risk of a Cyberattack
In this video, Raxis CTO Brian Tant talks about three steps you should take to secure your network against hackers.
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IKE VPNs Supporting Aggressive Mode
In this post we’ll look at why IKE VPNs with Aggressive Mode enabled continue to be a vulnerability, how it can be exploited, and how to mitigate this risk.
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The Weakest Link in the Password Hash
Raxis VP of Business Development explains easy rules to use to make your passwords more secure and harder for hackers to crack.
