Ethical Password Cracking
eBook Details:
- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: WOW! eBook (July 15, 2024)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1804611263
- ISBN-13: 978-1804611265
eBook Description:
Ethical Password Cracking: Decode passwords using John the Ripper, hashcat, and advanced methods for password breaking. Investigate how password protection works and delve into popular cracking techniques for penetration testing and retrieving data.
Whether you’re looking to crack passwords as part of a thorough security audit or aiming to recover vital information, this book will equip you with the skills to accomplish your goals. Written by a cybersecurity expert with over fifteen years of experience in penetration testing, Ethical Password Cracking offers a thorough understanding of password protection and the correct approach to retrieving password-protected data.
As you progress through the chapters, you first familiarize yourself with how credentials are stored, delving briefly into the math behind password cracking. Then, the book will take you through various tools and techniques to help you recover desired passwords before focusing on common cracking use cases, hash recovery, and cracking. Real-life examples will prompt you to explore brute-force versus dictionary-based approaches and teach you how to apply them to various types of credential storage.
- Understand the concept of password cracking
- Discover how OSINT potentially identifies passwords from breaches
- Address how to crack common hash types effectively
- Identify, extract, and crack Windows and macOS password hashes
- Get up to speed with WPA/WPA2 architecture
- Explore popular password managers such as KeePass, LastPass, and 1Password
- Format hashes for Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ethereum wallets, and crack them
By the end of this Ethical Password Cracking book, you’ll understand how passwords are protected and how to crack the most common credential types with ease.
