Back when passwords were stored in that file, any local user could pull the full list of password hashes and start cracking. These days, Linux stores the password hashes in /etc/shadow, where they are ...

In Part I of this series, I explained how password cracking works in general terms and described my specific password-cracking hardware. In this article, I dig into the software side of things and ...

He cracked the first 60 percent of the list using the freely available Hashcat and John the Ripper password-cracking programs, which ran the guesses through the same MD5 algorithm Stratfor and ...