password-attacks
Everything tagged "password-attacks".
Brute Forcing Logins notes 6 min 04 Aug 2026 Online guessing against a live service: many passwords against one account, until the service answers differently. Password Spraying notes 4 min 01 Aug 2026 Spraying is the inverse of [Brute Forcing Logins](/collections/oscp/brute-forcing-logins): one password tried across many accounts, instead of many passwords against one account. hashcat notes 1 min 13 Sept 2026 Password cracker built for GPUs: each hash format needs an explicit mode number, and the right `-m` comes from the format table in [Password Cracking](/collections/oscp/password-cracking). john notes 1 min 13 Sept 2026 Password cracker for offline cracking from Kali: CPU-based, auto-detects hash formats, and needs no GPU or OpenCL backend, which makes it the default for a single hash on the Kali VM. Password Cracking notes 4 min 22 Jul 2026 Offline recovery of a password from a captured artifact: a protected file, an encrypted key, or a hash.
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