Three Approaches to Cracking the Windows Password

Posted on May 13th, 2008 in Cracking, Windows by admin

Method #1: Requires access to the box by some account other than the one you need.

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Method #2: Download the ophcrack live cd burn the iso to cd, boot your computer off the cd, and ophcrack should spend 5-15 minutes to crack the password.

Method #3: Cain and Abel Password Cracker (can be used over a network)

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What? You think it’d be harder? From a company that never treats security seriously anyways?

Howto: crack a wireless network with Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

Posted on May 12th, 2008 in Cracking by admin

WEP was intended to provide comparable confidentiality to a traditional wired network (in particular it does not protect users of the network from each other), hence the name. Several serious weaknesses were identified by cryptanalysts — any WEP key can be cracked with readily available software in two minutes or less — and WEP was superseded by Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) in 2003, and then by the full IEEE 802.11i standard (also known as WPA2) in 2004. Despite the weaknesses, WEP provides a level of security that can deter casual snooping. Wikipedia