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Using hashcat to recover your passwords

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Many people may have a user account on their system which they may not know the password to log in. Other passwords may also exist which can be recovered. This article will cover the use of Hashcat to find missing passwords. Of course, this process will not find every password, but it can help to attempt a recovery.

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mbaehrlxer ·
the article appears to link to an old version of hashcat. (2.0.0)

the current version is 3.6.0 which was released after the article was posted. get the latest version here: https://hashcat.net/hashcat/#downloadlatest

greetings, eMBee.

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