Brief Intro To Password Cracking

A Brief Intro To Password Cracking

What is Password Cracking?
Password cracking is the process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored in or transmitted by a computer system.The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password , to gain unauthorized access to a system, or as a preventive measure by system administrators to check for easily crackable passwords.

What are the Common Methods?

1. Guessing
Easy Passwords can be sometimes guessed by people. These include most common passwords like The persons name, D.O.B, QWERTY, 123456, etc.

2. Bruteforcing
Many password cracker use this method to crack passwords. This method involves a software repeatedly trying out different combinations for logging into the system (or account).

3. Dictionary Attack
This method involves use of long lists of commonly used password lists or Username:Password combos or Wordlists for assisting Bruteforce. The software uses the data provided in this Sheet (text) to login to the system.

4. Social Engineering
This method involves interaction with the slave (or so told yet to be slave). In this method the Hacker asks the person many questions casually in a mindset to make him blurt out his password or atleast give a clue of it.

Suggestions to Prevent your password from getting cracked
* Using Alphabets , Numerals , Symbols in your passwords.
* Encrypting your passwords with Hashes like MD5.
* Installing a Captcha to stop bots.
These are a just few common methods.

 

Tools Required to Crack Passwords

Password Cracking Softwares:

Brutus (Bruteforcer)

John the Ripper (Bruteforcer)

Aircrack (Wifi-WEP/WPA Cracking Tool)

Cain and Abel (All In One)

THC Hydra (Bruteforcer)

L0phtcrack (Hash Cracker)

Airsnort (WEP Encryption Cracking Tool)

Solarwinds (Traffic Monitoring)

PwDump (Windows Password Recovery Tool)

Rainbow Crack (Hash Cracker)

 

Ultimate Password List (Dictionary)

Rockyou (Most Preferred)

PHPbb

Myspace

Hak5

Hotmail

Faith Writers

Elite Hackers

500 Worst Passwords

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