18. Exercise: Penetration Testing
Exercise: Penetration Testing
Task Description:
There are tools and scripts that can be written to automate dictionary building as you advance, however we’ll create the list manually so that you fundamentally understand how password cracking works. Let’s say the base keyword you choose is “password”. You’d use the base to create variations like password123 and Password1234 because people tend to use common words and then add a few numbers or special characters. Passwords are usually stored on computers as hashes. To mimic this, once you have the list of common passwords, you can run them through a hash converter (e.g. http://onlinemd5.com) to come up with the hash string.
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