A new multi-platform password cracking tool hashcat was just released publicly.
Tested on XP, Win7, Gentoo, Debian

The main features of hashcat are:

* It is free.
* Native binaries for Linux and Windows.
* Multi-threaded.
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You just got WordPress installed and completely forgot to change the random password? To change it, open a terminal and change the password field for the account you just created in mysql.  Here’s how:
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Don’t know the root-level password for MySQL? Or just plain forgot it? (more…)