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 [...]
Man this blows.
It seems it happened quite a while ago, I only just found out about it recently though when I was checking to see if L0phtcrack had been updated past version 5.
Symantec has quietly pulled the plug on sales of L0phtCrack, the venerable password auditing and recovery application.
The decision to discontinue support for L0phtCrack, [...]
