Know about Linux system security One of the most important Linux system security feature are passwords today. Most of server administrator and users use password to secure their system to get access by others. In Linux (RHEL/DEBIAN) these passwords are saved in passwd and shadow files in /etc directory. In deep description about passwd and … Read more
Hello friends, Welcome again! We are discussing about Penetration Testing Tutorial and this article under section cracking passwords and hashes cracking. Brute force attack with cain and abel In my previous post Cain and Abel software for cracking hashes tutorial you have learnt about basic features or cain and abel. In the last of post I … Read more
The Rainbow tables attack is one of the most favorite attacks for hackers to crack password easily. But getting a rainbow table on the internet as per your requirements is no easy task. In this article, one more interesting topic will cover (how to use winrtgen to generate a rainbow table) You have read two … Read more
Description of Cain and Abel Software According to the official website http://www.oxid.it/cain.html , Cain and Abel software is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kinds of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking hashes passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, … Read more
Hello friends, welcome again! In the last post I told about Understanding Linux system security for Users After reading this post you have knowledge about Linux file system, and where username and password are stored in Linux? where you can dump this password? when you dump password, it will be in plain text or encrypted format? … Read more
Generate Rainbow Tables and Crack Hashes with rcracki_mt Rcracki_mt is a tool used to crack hashes and found in kali linux by default. It is used rainbow tables to crack the password. Some other tools generate rainbow tables. You can download Rainbow table https://www.freerainbowtables.com/tables2/ if you don’t want to download rainbow table you can create you own … Read more
thc-hydra A very fast network logon cracker with a dictionary attack tool which support many different services. You can use thc-hydra tool for cracking the password. Many hackers love this tool due to its GUI and Cmdline interface. If you are new in ethical hacking and don’t know how to use thc-hydra, still you can use … Read more
Hashcat Tutorial for beginner Password cracking is a very interesting topic and loved by every hacker. There are multiple password cracking software exist in the market for cracking the password. but hashcat is unique. Hashcat is working well with GPU, or we can say it is only designed for using GPU. GPU has amazing calculation … Read more
Dictionary attack From Wikipedia: “A dictionary attack uses a targeted technique of successively trying all the words in an exhaustive list called a dictionary (from a pre-arranged list of values). In contrast with a brute force attack, where a large proportion key space is searched systematically, a dictionary attack tries only those possibilities which are … Read more
What is Password Hashes and SAM Database? SAM is stand for Security Account Manager. SAM database is a part of windows Operating system consist user name and password in encrypted format called password hashes. SAM file is exist under C:/Windows/System32/config in Window 7/8/8.1/10. If User want to logon on the machine, user name and password … Read more