From the course: Performing a Technical Security Audit and Assessment

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Solution: Install and run a password cracker

Solution: Install and run a password cracker

From the course: Performing a Technical Security Audit and Assessment

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Solution: Install and run a password cracker

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(upbeat music) - [Instructor] In the previous video, I challenged you to try brute force cracking a password hashes with Hash Suite. If you were successful, you should have found more than 600 passwords with your first pass. Let's take a look at how Hash Suite password cracking works. You can see I've downloaded, installed, and opened Hash Suite. Following the instructions I gave you in the challenge video, I'll click on the first tab in the top left of the screen, then click on Import, From file. Then I'll click on the sample_pwdump.txt file and click open. As you can see, that loaded 967 password hashes into Hash Suite. On the main tab, the box next to charset is checked. And in the parameters sidebar, I'll set the maximum size to six characters. We're all ready, so I'll click the Start button at the top and let the scan run. Here, you can see the key space is more than 109 billion keys or combinations of…

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