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What is John the Ripper and How Does it Work?

John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. It was designed to test password strength, brute-force encrypted (hashed) passwords, and crack passwords via dictionary attacks. John the Ripper is a part of the Rapid7 family of penetration testing/ hacking tools. Also, John is already installed on Kali Linux. First, we advocate for ethical [...]

Brute Force Attack

Tech20202020-08-14T07:31:06+00:00Categories: Network Security|Tags: Authentication, Brute Force Attack, Captcha, Credential Stuffing, Cyber Attacks, cyber crime, cyber security, CyberSecurity, Dictionary attack, Dictionary attacks, Encryption, Hybrid brute force attacks, MFA, Multi-Factor Authentication, Network Attacks, Network Security, password complexity, password length, Password Manager, Rainbow table attacks, Salt the hash, Simple brute force attacks, Throttle rate|

A brute force attack (exhaustive search) is a cryptographic hack that relies on guessing possible combinations of a targeted password until the correct password is discovered. This attack uses trial-and-error to guess login info, encryption keys, or find a hidden web page. Brute force attacks don’t employ an intellectual strategy. These attacks simply try using [...]