‫A password cracking attack is either online or offline.
‫So let's talk about this classification for a little bit.
‫So there are a lot of password cracking tools out there, and I'll list some of them here.
‫Hydra is a command line on line cracking.
‫Well, put our hands on it in a few minute.
‫Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems.
‫It allows easy recovery of various kinds of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords,
‫using dictionary brute force and cryptanalysis attacks, recording video IP conversations, decoding
‫scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes and covering cached
‫passwords and analyzing routing protocols does a lot.
‫John the Ripper is a fast password cracker currently available for many flavors of Unix windows, doors
‫and open VMS.
‫It's one of the most popular password testing and breaking programs as it combines a number of password
‫crackers into one package.
‫Auto detects password hash types.
‫And includes a customizable cracker.
‫Hash Cat is another password recovery tool, the developers of the tools claim that it's the fastest
‫password cracker in the whole world.
‫It can basically use you as well as CPU where the GPU is.
‫Well, let's face it, far more powerful and processing.
‫So the crack is a free Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables.
‫It's very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of that method.
‫It comes with a graphical user interface and runs on multiple platforms.