Brute force attacks in actions

Brute force attacks in actions I will demonstrate some useful tools that can help with brute forcing.
Although writing a script to do this for us generally isn't a difficult task, some of these tools include helpful functions as well as the ability to brute force against different protocols.
Instead of re-inventing the wheel, we will look at some of the more popular tools used today by professionals.


First, John the ripper
John the Ripper is an extremely popular password cracking tool that initially was born on Unix, but is now available on a wide range of platforms.
It is very fast at password cracking and has many different options available.
Even the brute force option has options to modify it.
Such as the ability to choose numbers only, letters only, LM hash and all characters.

Second Brutus

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The rest will be completed in the next. :-)
because I am swamped with work.