Password Cracking

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The Exploit: Penetration Testing Insights From The Frontlines

Articles Categorized as Password Cracking

The Hidden Risks in Your Password: What You Type Matters More Than You Think

Raxis has discovered and cracked our fair share of password hashes. Some that we have discovered may surprise you… and their bosses. Learn what not to do.

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Wireless Series: The Aircrack-ng Suite for All Your Wireless Pentesting Needs

Principal Penetration Tester Scottie Cole continues our wireless series with the Aircrack-ng Suite, a set of tools for wireless pentest discovery and exploits.

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Publicly Accessible Database Discovered Hosting 149 Million Credentials

Andrew Trexler looks at a recently discovered public database of stolen usernames and passwords and what you can do now to protect your access and information.

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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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