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BRUTE FORCE PASSWORD CRACK:-

 BRUTE FORCE PASSWORD CRACK

PASSWORD HACK



If I had a dollar for every time, I tried to crack the parental lock on the TV or the password on my parents’ laptop, I would be a millionaire.

Professionally there are a multitude of ways to crack a password of a system. Let’s learn one such technique of cracking the password.

PASSWORD CRACK (BRUTE FORCE)

You already know about Kali LINUX and the tools come installed with it. It’s time for you to know a bit about what brute force is.

No no… we are not telling you to punch your monitor (at least not yet)

A brute force attack refers to manually running all possible combinations on a system in order to crack its password. Something we have all tried while trying to remove the parental locks when we were young. One is bound to hit the bulleye….

Watch this video to know about applying brute force attack to crack a password and using a pre-installed tool in kali know as Crunch.

Brute force, crunch and crawlers…. somebody wasn’t in the mood while naming these.

TYPES OF PASSWORD ATTACKS

There are two main categories of password cracking techniques: offline and online. Online attacks are performed on a live host or system by either brute-force or wordlist attack against a login form, session, or other type of authentication technique used.

Let’s take a look at some of the password cracking techniques other than Brute Force Technique

1.      Dictionary Attacks: While similar to a brute-force attack, there is one major difference between the two techniques. In this scenario, the hacker uses a list of probable matches (based on words of the English language, for example) instead of trying all potential characters on by one.

2.      Rainbow Table Attacks: A rainbow table is a pre-compiled table used for recovering hashes. Each rainbow table is for a specific length of password containing a well-defined set of characters. This technique aims to reduce the guessing time but is limited to passwords no longer than nine characters.

3.      Markov Chains Attacks: To use the Markov Chains technique hackers need to assemble a certain password into 2-grams and 3-grams (2- and 3-character-long syllables), develop a new alphabet where these different elements act as letters and then match it with the existing password database.

 

1.      Which one of the following is a wordlist generator?

a.      Crunch

b.      Brute Force attack

c.      Crawlers

d.      SQL injection

Ans- a. Crunch

 

KEY TAKEAWAYS!

Hey there I hope you are having an excellent journey so far.

Here are a few pointers to remember

·        Brute force is one of the most common and one of the simplest password cracking techniques that we can learn.

·        It is an exhaustive search technique. This means that the computer tries every possible combination until one of them is right

·        It is impossible for a person to carry out physically.

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