Everybody knows not to store sensitive information in unencrypted files, right? PDFs and ZIP files can often contain a treasure trove of information, ...
SSH is one of the most common protocols in use in modern IT infrastructures, and because of this, it can be a valuable attack vector for hackers. One ...
To name just a few companies, VK, µTorrent, and ClixSense all suffered significant data breaches at some point in the past. The leaked password databa ...
Secure Shell is one of the most common network protocols, typically used to manage remote machines through an encrypted connection. However, SSH is pr ...
Password cracking is a specialty of some hackers, and it's often thought that raw computing power trumps everything else. That is true in some cases, ...
The tactic of brute-forcing a login, i.e., trying many passwords very quickly until the correct one is discovered, can be easy for services like SSH o ...
With a simple social engineering trick, sudo passwords can be captured in seconds without the target's knowledge. The passwords can then be saved to a ...
Using Hydra, Ncrack, and other brute-forcing tools to crack passwords for the first time can be frustrating and confusing. To ease into the process, l ...
Brute-forcing is an easy way of discovering weak login credentials and is often one of the first steps when a hacker finds network services running on ...
Pyrit is one of the most powerful WPA/WPA2 cracking tools in a hacker's arsenal, with the ability to benchmark a computer's CPU speeds, analyze captur ...