Of course you can find password lists with many thousands or even millions of passwords. Then I grabbed a list of 500 passwords from . Installation of all three tools was straight forward on Ubuntu Linux. The three tools I will assess are Hydra, Medusa and Ncrack (from ). Another type of password brute forcing is attacks against the password hash, using tools such as Hashcata powerful tool that is able to crack encrypted password hashes on a local system. These are typically Internet facing services that are accessible from anywhere in the world. I am going to focus on tools that allow remote service brute forcing. Testing for weak passwords is an important part of security assessments. Password’s are often the weakest link in any system.
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