Our mission for this week's Community Byte was to create a Python program to crack web-based passwords, like the ones you would see on an email or router login. I wanted it to be universal in the ...

There is a new tool offensive security teams can use for their password cracking needs. CrackQ is open-source and can provide metrics on the current jobs, queuing and re-queuing tasks.

There are other services that can crack WPA using rentable cloud infrastructure, such as WPACracker, which uses its processor cluster to use dictionary attacks to crack Wi-Fi passwords.