Ethical Hacking: Password Cracking

Discover how password lists accelerate guessing by trying common passwords from large word lists. Hackers use these lists, including Linux Kali word lists, to gain access.

Explore zip password cracking with John the Ripper and zip2john on Kali Linux, using wordlists and command-line tools to recover a zip file's password.

Demonstrate extracting Windows password hashes via Mimikatz, enumerate user accounts, and crack those hashes using crackstation.net and Kali Linux tools, highlighting rainbow tables and hash concepts.

Explore cracking Windows hashes on Kali Linux with John the Ripper, using the rockyou word list to generate and compare hashes, and learn how to set the correct hash format.

Learn how Linux password hashes stored in the shadow file are cracked with John the Ripper on Kali Linux, using combined passwd and shadow data and word lists.

Explore cracking ssh server passwords on ubuntu by setting up a test server, installing openssh, and using Hydra with word lists and nmap to brute-force access.

Learn to set up an ftp server on ubuntu, secure it by testing with a word-list password attack, and practice ftp file transfers and directory navigation.

Explore setting up a samba server on Ubuntu for secure file sharing and learn password-cracking techniques using wordlists to assess and strengthen network authentication.