Russian security vendor Elcomsoft is offering a 20 percent discount for law enforcement and government agencies for some of its password-cracking software. Elcomsoft, based in Moscow, makes an array ...

Security researchers have uncovered the truth behind software that’s being advertised as a way to unlock industrial terminals without a password — it’s actually a malware dropper. The malware can ...

SALISBURY, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — On Monday, the Rowan County Board of Commissioners voted to approve funding for software that would allow the sheriff’s office to crack into password-protected ...

A threat actor is infecting industrial control systems (ICS) to create a botnet through password "cracking" software for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Advertised on various social media ...

From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong file comes this: People hawking password-cracking software are targeting the hardware used in industrial-control facilities with malicious code that makes their ...

A Russian security company has upgraded a phone-password cracking suite with the ability to figure out the master device password for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices. Elcomsoft said on ...

Threat actors are targeting systems in industrial control environments with backdoor malware hidden in fake password-cracking tools. The tools, being touted for sale on a variety of social media ...

Security analyst Sam Croley is a specialist in password cracking, and has just found a new best friend: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090. Impressively, the Ada Lovelace architecture flagship graphics card ...

A government watchdog has published a scathing rebuke of the Department of the Interior’s cybersecurity posture, finding it was able to crack thousands of employee user accounts because the department ...

May 9, 2025: Updated to note that this data seems to be referring to a worst case scenario for hackers and assumes that the software tries every other hash first before getting to the correct one. In ...

Are you trying to open a password-protected PDF or ZIP file? Then, you already know how frustrating it can be. You try out different tools, and the result is a ...