It’s been quite a while since we’ve written about Cain & Abel, one of the most powerful tools for the Windows platform (back in 2007 here).
Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, [...]

crack.pl is a tool for cracking SHA1 & MD5 hashes, including a new BETA tool which can crack MD5 that have been salted. You can use a dictionary file or bruteforce and it can be used to generate tables itself.
NOTE – Salt function is currently only available for md5, you need to append ‘\’ infront [...]

Finally an update to Medusa! Version 1.5 of Medusa is now available for public download. Medusa 1.4 was released quite some time back in November 2007 and before that Medusa 1.3 showed up November 2006.
You would have thought version 1.5 would have been released in November 2008! Looks like they missed by a few months.

What [...]

Bruter 1.0 BETA 1 has been released. Bruter is a parallel login brute-forcer. This tool is intended to demonstrate the importance of choosing strong passwords. The goal of Bruter is to support a variety of services that allow remote authentication.
Bruter is a tool for the Win32 platform only.

PROTOCOL SUPPORT
It currently supports the following services:

FTP
HTTP (Basic)
HTTP [...]

As a security consultant, job functions include Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Assessments. The aim of these types of engagements is to demonstrate risk to the customer. One of the steps involved in demonstrating risk is password auditing (”cracking”) in order to assess the strength and quality of passwords in use in the environment.
On a Windows [...]

Cain & Abel is easily one of our favourite password crackers here at Darknet, especially because it’s oldskool but still under development, unlike most other projects which have been abandoned as time passed.
Cain & Abel has some awesome stuff built in like native network sniffing and network password grabbing.

Cain & Abel is a password recovery [...]

GoldenEye is a brute-force hacking program and was written for web-masters to test the security of their own sites. This is an oldskool file, a lot of people are still looking for this.
It should not be use by others to hack sites – this would be illegal! Under no circumstances should the author or any [...]

Since Symantec stopped development of L0phtcrack many people have been looking for alternatives.
So don’t forget…

Jack the Ripper is still king
Medusa is good
Ophcrack for Rainbow Tables
And now one more, introducting LCP, which we have talked about before in the article Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables.
LCP is freeware!
The main purpose of LCP program is user [...]

A lot of people come to Darknet looking for Brutus AET2 (brutus-aet2.zip) to download, but unfortunately due to some stupid Homeland security bullshit I actually had to remove the file or risk having no hosting left..
If you don’t know, Brutus is one of the fastest, most flexible remote password crackers you can get your hands [...]

Medusa is a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer for network services created by the geeks at Foofus.net. It currently has modules for the following services: CVS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, MS-SQL, MySQL, NCP (NetWare), PcAnywhere, POP3, PostgreSQL, rexec, rlogin, rsh, SMB, SMTP (VRFY), SNMP, SSHv2, SVN, Telnet, VmAuthd, VNC, and a generic wrapper module.

While Medusa [...]