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Python for Offensive PenTest
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Python for Offensive PenTest

by Hussam Khrais
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
4h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Dumping saved passwords out of Google Chrome

In this section, we will discuss another password-hacking technique. This technique was originally created to recover your password if you forget it. Here we will take advantage and hack the saved password remotely. For this attack to work successfully, your target should be using Google Chrome, and they should have previously saved the login password. Let's look at how this works. Log into your Facebook account. You will notice a prompt at the top-right corner of the screen, which asks you whether to save the password with a Save password button. If our target has clicked on Save password, then we will be able to grab that password remotely.

We will now see how to do that. To do this, we will ...

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