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.
Password Cracking
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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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