Our mission for this week's Community Byte was to create a Python program to crack web-based passwords, like the ones you would see on an email or router login. I wanted it to be universal in the ...

There is a new tool offensive security teams can use for their password cracking needs. CrackQ is open-source and can provide metrics on the current jobs, queuing and re-queuing tasks.

The CCS can crack a WPA-PSK handshake at a speed of 400,000 attempted passwords per second using eight GPU-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) instances, Roth said on Thursday.