Time

40 minutes

Difficulty

Intermediate

CEU/CPE

In Password Cracking Tool Fundamentals, Dustin Parry takes you through different aspects of securing passwords and techniques deployed to crack passwords. These techniques can be deployed by IT technicians to check the password strengths, and it can be used by pentesters and attackers alike.

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This Course is part of a Career Path: Become a Penetration Tester

Password Cracking Foundations

John the Ripper Introduction

John the Ripper Demonstration

Hash Suite

Cain and Abel

Securing Your Password

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In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of Password cracking, and the various tools and techniques associated with beginner level password cracking. Various techniques like hashing, salting, peppering and encrypting passwords for secure storage are discussed. Insight into various tools like John the ripper, Cain and Abel are also given, which are used to crack passwords in realtime. Best practices for securing passwords are discussed, which will help organizations to deploy industrial standard Password policies.