Well, what a battle. Congratz hashcat for winning KoreLogic again! Thank you KoreLogic for hosting 10+ Years of fantastic contests! It is always a great time battling it out and making sure hashcat has to work for their spot. Until next year. In Veneration

Added support to crack password-protected RAR 3 archives without header encryption (both compressed and uncompressed): github.com/hashcat/hashca…

Some early RTX3080 benchmarks: Both bcrypt and sha512crypt more than twice as fast than RTX2080Ti. Can't wait for a full list.

I hate java but I do like that interview youtube.com/watch?v=IT__Nr…

ITERs budget is only 22 bln and probably more then half of that was spent on overhead, Elon Musk isn’t that just lunch money for $tlsa?

Thrilled to announce our first major breakthrough in applying AI to a grand challenge in science. #AlphaFold has been validated as a solution to the ‘protein folding problem’ & we hope it will have a big impact on disease understanding and drug discovery: deepmind.com/alphafold-blog

Another release, but this time for password cracker guys and hashcat 👽 Code name: "combinatorX" 😜 brother of Jens Steube "combinator3". check hashcat-utils for more details. github.com/hashcat/hashca… #hashcat #passwordcracking #combinatorX

We added a new feature to perform an automatic analysis of the hash list provided by the user and list compatible hash-modes out of all 350+ plugins: asciinema.org/a/418653

New backend support in hashcat: HIP, an OpenCL alternative API for AMD GPUs (similar to CUDA for NVIDIA GPUs). Many thanks to Adil Lashab github.com/reger-men/ for the main contribution. Benchmarks for AMD MI100 and Vega64: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

CrackMeIfYouCan - the first and largest password cracking contest @DEFCON congratulates Team hashcat for their win in the "Pro" categories. Stayed tuned for their write up of how they cracked all the passwords #DEFCON

Team hashcat has won Defcon KoreLogic contest! Congratulations team!!! hashcat ҉₮ꗞ❌ꕯて ᨐ _NSAKEY alotdv Michael Bland Chick3nman 🐔 Christoph Heuwieser EvilMog® @mog.evil.af Matrix Philipp Sébastien Raveau The_Mechanic Royce Williams (@[email protected]) unix-ninja Xanadrel

Another great KoreLogic and another win for Team Hashcat! CynoSure Prime put up quite the fight, well played by all teams. Huge thank you to KoreLogic for hosting the DEF CON Password Village and keeping this contest running for so many years, hopefully with many more to come.

Teams: For those who missed the post-contest out-brief. Here are the stats about the plaintexts for the 2021 contest. Along with percentage cracked, the cracked hashes, the uncracked hashes, etc contest-2021.korelogic.com/password-info.…

Official Team Hashcat write-up of this year's KoreLogic contest at DEF CON 2021: github.com/hashcat/team-h…

hey Chubbyemu I have a Video idea for you, what’s the current bleeding edge of Testing for things in the blood? Thinking about cool tec that is currently still in testing or conceptual phase. Why is there still no Star Trek live monitoring of the body?

We just added support to crack Windows "Hello" PIN/Password authentication in hashcat! Regarding all technical details, please have a look at this forum thread: hashcat.net/forum/thread-1… Thanks to Tijl Deneut and @banaanhangwagen for all the intense preparational work

Official Team Hashcat write-up of this year's KoreLogic contest at DEF CON 2022: github.com/hashcat/team-h… CynoSure Prime john-users team

Team hashcat has placed first in the KoreLogic contest at #DEFCON31! This marks our 10th CMIYC win! As always CynoSure Prime put up a great fight, congrats on 2nd place, looking forward to the writeup! Big thanks to KoreLogic and Password Village for organizing the contest!