Password hash cracking with Hashcat and CUPP

The advice to use long complex passwords is commonly given, but few people understand why it is necessary, and how easy it can be for bad actors to crack less secure passwords. To show why this advice is so important I'm going to demonstrate a couple of different tools and attacks. With Hashcat I'll show how a brute force and dictionary attack work, and with CUPP I'll show how easily identifiable information about you in your password is a bad idea. Stick around to the end to see some tips on how you can make sure your online accounts are as secure as they can be.