In the last few years there have been many advances in both password cracking technology and the community. GPUs have taken off. Brute forcing is back in 'style'. Intruders are starting to post the hashes stolen from compromised sites. The complexity of the "rules" are growing, and the amount of people who can actually understand them is finally increasing. The amount of tools out there to do hash cracking has taken off. And just recently, cell phone hackers have started getting into the game with their SL3 hashes needed to unlock certain phones.
All of this adds to up an active community of hackers. And lots have changed in the last year.
This talk will be an "outbrief" of the latest technologies/tricks/tips/rules to do your own password/hash cracking. This is NOT a tutorial!