Information Security Handbook

Hacker techniques

We will now take a look at some of the techniques and tools used by the attacker to launch their attacks and campaigns:

• Password cracking: The hacker utilizes specialized software to recover passwords that have been transmitted over the network, from recovered password databases stored at rest, and application software that implements their own methods of authentication. A common method for implementing password cracking is to implement automated guessing through the use of password dictionaries. The following is a list of the password cracking tools that we can use:
  • Brutus: http://sectools.org/tool/brutus/
  • RainbowCrack: http://sectools.org/tool/rainbowcrack/
  • Wfuzz: http://sectools.org/tool/wfuzz/
  • Cain and Abel: http://sectools.org/tool/cain/ ...