As you know we think that oclHashcat is one of the best password crackers available and along with Hashcat and John The Ripper are pretty much the only password crackers we use at this point. Earlier someone asked me to crack some OpenLDAP hashes which come in SHA and SSHA format and the below example…
Today I was having a discussion regarding wordlist size, the calculation to come up with the specific size the wordlist would be once generated, and various other items revolving around password cracking. Somehow the application crunch came up which in the past has been used to generate wordlists however its fairly slow compared to other…
Cisco devices running the Cisco IOS have three types of ways to display passwords in the device configuration which include Type 0, Type 5, and Type 7. Below we describe all three methods of storing passwords in the Cisco IOS device configuration and how to obtain the password from each method either by simply reading…
The below article explains how I used password fingerprinting to crack 500,000 password hashes in less than half a day completly automated. This article shows each command step by step, but only to describe the details of how password fingerprinting with oclHashcat works. The reality is that the password fingerprinting process can easily be automated…
I wasn’t sure if Notepad++ was going to install properly on my new laptop running Windows 7 64-Bit. After the initial installation of Notepad++ I was receiving an error that I assumed must be related to the fact that this was a 64-Bit OS and not a 32-Bit OS. The issue ended up being a…
Spell check is not installed on Windows Notepad++ by default so to make it work you actually have to install a third party application called Aspell. To check and see if Aspell is installed on your Notepad++ version simply open a new document, write a sentence, and then click the spell check button which is…
Restoring your Outlook 2007 dictionary additions is easy but you just need to make sure you can recover the data or you back the proper file on a regular basis. The additions to the Microsoft Outlook 2007 dictionary are added when you Spell Check an email and instead of correcting the spelling you click the…