Brute Force Attacks

Brute Forcing is a method of cracking passwords, that involves rotating through randomized strings until the correct one is discovered. There are two forms of brute force attacks–one is dictionary style, where many pre-made strings are tried, while the other creates random strings from random numbers/integers. The former is faster, but does not always work, while the latter is slowpoke but will eventually get it.

A file that contains a large number of words. Used for brute forcing passwords. Normally in a .txt format or some other easily readable and editable format.

• ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/wordlists/
• ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/dict/wordlists
• http://www.outpost9.com/files/WordLists.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.org/Crackers/wordlists/

• Cain & Abel
  • C&A Tutorial
• Brutus
  • Brutus Tutorial
• John the Ripper

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