This is part five of the Password Cracking course within the MrCracker.com Inner Circle (previously known as the Hacker Institute). For the previous part of this course, click here. What is a dictionary attack? A dictionary attack is password attack where every word from the dictionary is attempted against a password hash. [...]
This is part four of the Password Cracking course within the MrCracker.com Inner Circle (previously known as the Hacker Institute). For the previous part of this course, click here. When performing a password cracking attack, it is either an online or offline attack. Let’s look at each method in detail. Online Password [...]
Software: Ophcrack Description: Ophcrack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. If you have no idea what a rainbow table is, see this article, or follow my password cracking course here for an upcoming article that simplifies the topic. It comes with a Graphical User Interface and runs on multiple platforms. Screenshot: [...]
This is part three of the Password Cracking course within the MrCracker.com Inner Circle (previously known as the Hacker Institute). For the previous part of this course, click here. Passwords are most often stored in their plaintext format or in their hashed value format in a file system or in a database. If your password [...]
