Welcome to Pluralsight and this cyber security tools course featuring
Cain and Abel, the free password recovery tool developed and maintained
by Massimiliano Montoro. Cain and Abel is a tool which red teaming
members who are looking to take advantage of valid credential sets to
impersonate legitimate users and move laterally in a network can use
during an attack engagement.
Additionally,
the tool can be used by penetration testers who wish to gain
remote control to a system or harvest credentials,
as well as forensic staff looking to recover passwords.
Cain and Abel is a tool for the Windows operating system
that enables the manipulation of network traffic to
identify weak or plain text passwords.
A vast array of encrypted credential types and hashes can also be compromised
through brute‑force techniques and cryptanalysis attacks.
Finally, remote access to vulnerable systems is possible with Abel,
which provides a variety of commands against a system to be executed remotely.
Cain and Abel consists of tooling that can be used for two separate objectives.
Cain can be used for password cracking and network‑based activities,
while Abel can be placed on a vulnerable system to enable remote
access and execution of commands on the system.
If you would like to learn how to use Cain and Abel to sniff your network,
hunt for valid credential sets, and use those
credentials to move laterally between systems,
come join me and explore the versatility of Cain and Abel.