New tool helps in the fight against weak passwords

Poor passwords frequently provide hackers with a way into networks, in order to help security teams and penetration testers identify them Trustwave is launching a new cracking tool. CrackQ is a queuing system to manage password cracking that works with the Hashcat tool which uses the power of GPUs to crack passwords. Dan Turner, principal consultant at Trustwave writing on the company's blog  says, "I've been managing internal password cracking rigs at Trustwave for a number of years and in various different incarnations, though I've never been happy with the efficiency of whichever process or application we have used to… [Continue Reading]