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World’s Fastest Password Cracking Tool Hashcat Is Now Open Source
The world’s fastest cracking tool Hashcat is now open source. The company has called it a very important step and listed out the reasons that inspired them to take this step.
If you are into password cracking, you might be aware of the fact that Hashcat is one of the most popular CPU-password recovery tools that is available for free. Hashcat is known for its speed and versatile nature to crack multiple types of hashes.
Now, going one step ahead, Hashcat has taken an important step of making Hashcat and oclHashcat open source. Hashcat is a CPU-based password recovery tool and oclHashcat is a GPU-accelerated tool.
In its latest blog post, Hashcat mentions the reasons behind this step. Whenever any software decides to go open source, the license matters the most. Hashcat used the MIT license, that allowed an easy integration or packaging of the common Linux distros, along with packages for Kali Linux.
Due to the adoption of open source path, now it’ll be easier to integrate external libraries in Hashcat. At the moment, hashcat/oclHashcat doesn’t need any external libraries, but if the need arises, now you’ve got the option.
Mentioning another major improvement, Hashcat writes that before going open source, there was no native support for OS X as Apple doesn’t support “offline” compiling of the kernel code. With open source license, now you can easily compile the kernels using Apple OpenCL Runtime JIT.
According to the company, another inspiration for going open source was the implementation of bitsliced DES GPU kernels.
Hashcat offers multiple types of attack modes. Take a look:
- Brute-Force attack
- Combinator attack
- Dictionary attack
- Fingerprint attack
- Hybrid attack
- Mask attack
- Permutation attack
- Rule-based attack
- Table-Lookup attack
- Toggle-Case attack
- PRINCE attack
Tag :
Ethical Hacking,
Password
This Computer Cluster Cracks Every Windows Password in 5.5-hours or Less.
A password-cracking expert has created a new computer cluster that cycles about 350 billion guesses per second and it can crack any Windows password in 5.5 hours or less.
Is your password safe enough? If you are feeling confident enough, take a minute and read this story. A password-cracking expert has revealed a new computer cluster that can crack any Windows passwords in less than six hours.
This beast cycles about 350 billion guesses per second and it could use a new virtualization software that gets juice from 25 GPUs (AMD Radeon graphics card). The 64 bit Linux-based GPU cluster runs the Virtual OpenCL cluster platform that allows these graphics cards to work as if they are on a single computer.
Ars Technica writes that this cluster touches the 350 billion-guess-per-second speed while cracking password hashes generated by the NTLM cryptographic algorithm, that Microsoft uses in Windows operating systems.
This means, the cluster can try n mammoth 958 password combinations in just 5.5 hours. This amazing set of tries is enough to brute force every possible 8-character password that can contain digits, upper and lower case letters, and symbols.
The Virtual OpenCL cluster platform works along with ocl-Hashcat Plus- a free password-cracking tool. The cluster isn’t limited to brute force attacks and it deploys other techniques like dictionary attacks to crack every possible password combination.
Jeremi M Gosney, Founder and CEO of Stricture Consulting Group tells Ars, “before VCL people were trying lots of different things to varying degrees of success.”
He adds, “VCL put an end to all of this, because now we have a generic solution that works right out of the box, and handles all of that complexity for you automatically. It’s also really easy to manage because all of your compute nodes only have to have VCL installed, nothing else. You only have your software installed on the cluster controller.”
This beast was created using:
- Five 4U servers
- 25 AMD Radeon GPUs
- 10x HD 7970
- 4x HD 5970 (dual GPU)
- 3x HD 6990 (dual GPU)
- 1x HD 5870
- 4x SDR Infiniband interconnect
- 7kW of electricity
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Password
How To Hack Into Computers Through Wifi
How To Hack Into Computers Through
WiFi
The internet is ever growing and you and I are truly pebbles in a vast ocean of
information. They say what you don’t know can’t hurt you. When it comes to the
Internet believe quite the opposite. On the Internet there a millions and
millions of computer users logging on and off on a daily basis. Information is
transferred from one point to another in a heartbeat. Amongst those millions
upon millions of users, there’s you.In this tutorial i am going to show
you how to to access someone's facebook, youtube, and many other accounts which
is using the same WiFi as you.
You need:
Mozilla Firefox
Firesheep -
A Firefox extension that demonstrates HTTP session hijacking attacks.
WinPcap -
WinPcap is an open source library for packet capture and network analysis for
the Win32 platforms. It includes a kernel-level packet filter, a low-level
dynamic link library (packet.dll), and a high-level and system-independent
library.
Step 1: Install WinPcap then drag the
Firesheep add-on, and put it on the Firefox icon. Firefox will open and will
ask you to install the add on. Install it and restart Firefox.
Step 2: Open the add-on (You can do it by clicking on View ->
Sidebar -> Firesheep), then click on Start Capturing and it'll start
capturing, and as soon as somebody logs in any account it'll show up the logs,
and then you can access their account.
Simple, but functional and VERY
effective method to hack someones facebook, youtube, myspace, etc.
account through WiFi.
