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2. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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   Password cracking. In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of guessing passwords [1] protecting a computer system. A common approach (brute-force attack) is to repeatedly try guesses for the password and to check them against an available cryptographic hash of the password. [2]

3. John the Ripper - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.openwall.com /john /. John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. [3] Originally developed for the Unix operating system, it can run on fifteen different platforms (eleven of which are architecture-specific versions of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS). It is among the most frequently used password testing and ...

4. Crack (password software) - Wikipedia

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   Network distributed password cracking; Crack v5.0a released in 2000 did not introduce any new features, but instead concentrated on improving the code and introducing more flexibility, such as the ability to integrate other crypt() variants such as those needed to attack the MD5 password hashes used on more modern Unix, Linux and Windows NT ...

5. Facebook employees had unfettered access to hundreds of ... - AOL

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   Facebook stored hundreds of millions of users' passwords in a format easily readable by its employees for years, in the latest security scandal to hit the beleaguered Silicon Valley tech giant.

6. Hydra (software) - Wikipedia

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   Hydra (software) Hydra (or THC Hydra) is a parallelized network login cracker built in various operating systems like Kali Linux, Parrot and other major penetration testing environments. [2] Hydra works by using different approaches to perform brute-force attacks in order to guess the right username and password combination.

7. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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   Websites including that of Maldives' Home Ministry, Juvenile Court, President's Office were defaced. The Facebook page of Auditor General's Office was also compromised. [247][248][249][250][251] February: The website of Burger Singh, an Indian food franchise, was hacked by Pakistani hacker group "Team Insane PK".

8. Cain and Abel (software) - Wikipedia

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   Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) was a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It could recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. [1] Cryptanalysis attacks were done via rainbow ...

9. Ophcrack - Wikipedia

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   Ophcrack is a free open-source (GPL licensed) program that cracks Windows log-in passwords by using LM hashes through rainbow tables.The program includes the ability to import the hashes from a variety of formats, including dumping directly from the SAM files of Windows, and can be run via the command line or using the program’s GUI (Graphical user interface).