[ad] Inguma is a free penetration testing and vulnerability discovery toolkit entirely written in python. Framework includes modules to discover hosts, gather information about, fuzz targets, brute force usernames and passwords, exploits, and a disassembler. We did mention it back in August when it first hit the streets. With new QT interface: If you haven’t […]
Password Cracking
Graphics Cards – The Next Big Thing for Password Cracking?
[ad] Interesting research from Elcomsoft, using the parallel processing capacity of graphics cards to speed up the password cracking process. Pretty inventive thinking, as graphics cards get more and more powerful, and they are created to do massive parallel tasks for all the latest and greatest games, why not apply it to password cracking! A […]
Pass-The-Hash Toolkit v1.1 Available for Download
[ad] The concept of passing the hash on Windows came about a while ago, now there’s a tool for it in it’s second revision (which fixed some problems with foreign language Windows versions and Windows 2003). The Pass-The-Hash Toolkit contains utilities to manipulate the Windows Logon Sessions mantained by the LSA (Local Security Authority) component. […]
Download pwdump6 and fgdump version 1.6.0 available now.
New versions of the excellent pwdump6 and fgdump have been released (1.6.0 for both!). For those that don’t know what pwdump or gfdump are.. pwdump6 is a password hash dumper for Windows 2000 and later systems. It is capable of dumping LanMan and NTLM hashes as well as password hash histories. It is based on […]
Russian Elcomsoft Finds Backdoor in Quicken Passwords
[ad] Elcomsoft is quite a well known firm when it comes to password ‘recovery’, I have used their products in the past when I was in a fix and I needed a password that had been, you know…lost. They rose to fame in 2001 after cracking Adobe’s eBook format. Recently they announced a fairly serious […]