password attacks

Hashcat is an advanced free (License: MIT) multi-threaded password recovery tool and it is world's fastest password cracker and recovery utility, which supports multiple unique attack modes of attacks for more than 200 highly optimized hashing algorithms. Hashcat currently supports CPUs and GPUs...

Hydra is a parallelized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. It is very fast and flexible, and new modules are easy to add. This tool makes it possible for researchers and security consultants to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access to a system remotely...

Weak passwords is a well known vulnerability, due to this most of the corp orates are compromised. Lots of people use weak passwords that can be brute forced and plain text can be obtained. Hashes are generated by single-way mathematical algorithms, that means they can't be reversed. So the...

The cewl is a CLI based ruby app which spider a URL to a specified depth and searches for words that can be used for password attacks. That means it can generate a custom wordlist form the words used in any website. This is open source and the source code is available in Github. Don't worry we...

Wordlists are the very crucial things in brute-force attacks. A brute-force password attack is a attack in which an attacker uses a script to repeatedly try to log into an account using a list of possible passwords until they successfully logged in. In this tutorial we are going to learn...

Kali Linux offers a number of customized tools designed for Penetration Testing. Tools are categorized in the following groups as seen in the drop-down menu shown in the following screenshot: Information Gathering: These are Reconnaissance tools used to gather data on your target network and...