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 […]
Password Cracking Tools
Password cracking and the associated password cracker tools are often the area of information security and hacking that people get most excited about, oh wow I can hack email passwords? We get emails pretty much every day asking how to crack someone's Facebook password, or retrieve website credentials etc.
What is Password Cracking?
As commonly defined:
In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of recovering passwords from data that have been stored in or transmitted by a computer system. A common approach (brute-force attack) is to try guesses repeatedly for the password and check them against an available cryptographic hash of the password.
The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password (installing an entirely new password is less of a security risk, but it involves System Administration privileges), to gain unauthorized access to a system, or as a preventive measure by system administrators to check for easily crackable passwords. On a file-by-file basis, password cracking is utilized to gain access to digital evidence for which a judge has allowed access but the particular file's access is restricted.
From Wikipedia.
The Best Password Cracker Software
We have covered many of the most famous, some great examples are:
- Brutus Password Cracker – Download brutus-aet2.zip AET2
- THC-Hydra – The Fast and Flexible Network Login Hacking Tool
- Download pwdump 1.4.2 and fgdump 1.3.4 – Windows Password Dumping
- Cain & Abel – Download the Super Fast and Flexible Password Cracker with Network Sniffing
- JTR (Password Cracking) – John the Ripper 1.7 Released – FINALLY
- Ophcrack 2.2 Password Cracker Released
- hashcat – Multi-Threaded Password Hash Cracking Tool
- Medusa 2.0 Released – Parallel Network Login Brute Forcing Tool
And we have also published some related resources such as:
- Password Cracking Wordlists and Tools for Brute Forcing
- Password Cracking with Rainbowcrack and Rainbow Tables
Cain And Abel Download – Windows Password Cracker
Get your Cain And Abel download here, it is easily one of our Windows password crackers here at Darknet, it has some awesome stuff built for Windows password recovery 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 […]
GoldenEye (GoldEye) Password Cracker – Download goldeye.zip or goldeneye.zip
GoldenEye is a brute-force password cracker hacking program and here you can download goldeye.zip or goldeneye.zip – it was written for web-masters to test the web application 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 […]
Medusa Fast Parallel Password Cracker 1.3 Released
[ad] Medusa is intended to be a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer. The goal is to support as many services which allow remote authentication as possible. The author considers following items as some of the key features of this application: Thread-based parallel testing. Brute-force testing can be performed against multiple hosts, users or passwords […]
Wyd – Automated Password Profiling Tool
Wyd is a neat tool I found recently for Password Profiling. In current IT security environments, files and services are often password protected. In certain situation it is required to get access to files and/or data even when they are protected and the password is unknown. wyd.pl was born out of those two of situations: […]