Apply Your Knowledge
Exercises
4.1. Password Cracking
How easy is it to crack passwords? It's certainly easy to talk about the reasons for strong passwords, and the need to develop alternatives to them. But how much of a problem is it really? To find out, obtain and run a password cracker on a system on which you are authorized to do so. The easiest process to follow is to set up a test Windows NT or Windows 2000 system, create accounts and populate them with passwords, and then run a cracking program against them. This exercise details how to do so.
Estimated Time: 1 hour
1. | Locate a system capable of running Windows 2000. Do not utilize a production system! Not only is it unethical to crack passwords on a system, it is illegal. You could find ... |
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