Category: Password Attacks

Comprehensive Guide to John the Ripper. Part 6: How to brute force non-standard hashes

Alex March 21, 2021 brute-force, dictionary attack, Hash, John the Ripper, mask attack, offline brute-force, passwords, raw2dyna Password Attacks No Comments »

How to generate candidate passwords that match password strength policies (filtering words with grep)

Alex March 17, 2021 dictionaries, dictionary attack, grep, Hashcat, maskprocessor, passwords, regular expressions, wordlist generator Password Attacks One Comment »

How to speed up the generation of dictionaries with passwords

Alex January 24, 2021 dictionaries, dictionary attack, maskprocessor, tmpfs Password Attacks No Comments »

How to create dictionaries that comply with specific password strength policies (using Rule-based attack)

Alex January 24, 2021 dictionaries, dictionary attack, Hashcat, John the Ripper, mask attack, maskprocessor, rule-based attack Password Attacks No Comments »

Comprehensive Guide to John the Ripper. Part 5: Rule-based attack

Alex November 30, 2020 brute-force, dictionary attack, John the Ripper, offline brute-force, passwords, rule-based attack, Windows Password Attacks 8 Comments »

Practical examples of Hashcat usage

Alex November 16, 2020 brute-force, Hashcat, offline brute-force, passwords Password Attacks 4 Comments »

How to hack HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication

Alex October 30, 2020 brute-force, htdigest, htpasswd, HTTP Basic authentication, HTTP Digest authentication, offline brute-force, online brute-force, passwords, Patator, Router Scan by Stas’M, routers, Wireshark Filters Password Attacks, Web Applications No Comments »

Comprehensive Guide to John the Ripper. Part 4: Practical examples of John the Ripper usage

Alex October 3, 2020 brute-force, dictionary attack, gpg, John the Ripper, KeePass, KeePassX, KeePassXC, mask attack, passwords, SSH, ssh-keygen, wireless Password Attacks 2 Comments »

How to use precomputed tables to crack Wi-Fi passwords in Hashcat and John the Ripper

Comprehensive Guide to John the Ripper. Part 3: How to start cracking passwords in John the Ripper (how to specify masks, dictionaries, hashes, formats, modes)

Alex September 11, 2020 brute-force, dictionary attack, John the Ripper, mask attack, passwords, Windows, Windows Command Line Password Attacks 9 Comments »