Top password cracking Tools

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Password cracking or ‘password hacking’ as is it more commonly referred to is a cornerstone of Cybersecurity and security in general.

Wanting to crack passwords and the security therein is likely the oldest and most in-demand skills that any InfoSec professional needs to understand and deploy.

Password hacking software has evolved tremendously over the last few years but essentially it comes down to several things:

firstly, what systems are in place to prevent certain popular types of password cracking techniques (for example ‘captcha forms’ for brute force attacks), and secondly, what is the computing processing power of the hacker?

Typically password hacking involves a hacker brute-forcing their way into a website admin panel (or login page for example) and bombarding the server with millions of variations to enter the system.

List Of Popular Password Hacking Software

Here is the list of 11 most popular Password Cracking Tools:

CrackStation
Password Cracker
Brutus Password Cracker
Aircrack
RainbowCrack
THC Hydra
Cain and Abel
Medusa
John The Ripper
ophCrack
WFuzz

In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of recovering passwords from data that have been stored in or transmitted by a computer system. A common approach (brute-force attack) is to try guesses repeatedly for the password and check them against an available cryptographic hash of the password. The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password (installing an entirely new password is less of a security risk, but it involves System Administration privileges), to gain unauthorized access to a system, or as a preventive measure by system administrators to check for easily crackable passwords. On a file-by-file basis, password cracking is utilized to gain access to digital evidence for which a judge has allowed access but the particular file's access is restricted.

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