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Articles Categorized as Password Cracking

  • The Hidden Risks in Your Password: What You Type Matters More Than You Think
    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: Aircrack-ng
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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