I am collecting here information about some of the widely used password cracking & password recovery tools. This tools can be used for both for operating systems as well as any network system.

Cain & Able Password Recovery Tool :

Cain & able is a password recovery tool designed specially for windows, & it can perform various tasks as follows.

Sniffing the network

Cracking Encrypted passwords

Recording VoIP Conversations

BruteForce

cracking cached passwords

Dictionary attack

Cryptanalysis attack

Download Cain & Able

THC Hydra Network Password Cracking Tool :

THC Hydra is a port based attacker which is used for cracking remote authentication service. It performs dictionary & brute force attack in faster speeds against protocols like ftp, http,https, smb, many databases. It is the network authentication tool by THC (The Hackers Choice)

Download THC Hydra

Aircrack – The WEP & WPA Password Cracking Tool :

Aircrack is basically a suite which includes various wireless network hacking tools such as follows:

Airplay : An 802.11 /b/g Packet Injection Program

Airodump : An 802.11 Packet capturing program

Airdecap : A program which decrypts  WEP/WPA capture files.

Aircrack is a suite of tools for 802.11a/b/g WEP and WPA cracking. It can recover a 40 through 512-bit WEP key once enough encrypted packets have been gathered.  It is also widely used for attacking  WPA 1 or 2 networks using advanced cryptographic methods or by brute force password cracking technology.

Download Aircrack

John The Ripper Password Hash Cracker:

A powerful, flexible, and fast multi-platform password hash cracker is what you can say about Jon the ripper & one of the oldest & best tool for cracking passwords.

Download John The Ripper

Brutus:

Its used for brute force authentication cracker. This password cracking tool is basically made for windows & uses dictionary attack & hybrid attack of numerous permutations & combination of words, letters & symbols. It supports HTTP, POP3, FTP, SMB, TELNET, IMAP, NTP etc.,

Download Brutus Password Cracker Here

Hope you have liked this collection of tools, there are many other tools but used for specific purposes. Please let us know if you need any help with this tool by commenting here.

Steganography is method of hiding files in image files.

This is used mostly on a network so that files can be stored secretly. This method is very harmful for those where source codes of viruses and and programs can be stored. Also some secret file can also be stored and it can be any information about sytem and system weaknesses.

Following are the softwares used for setganography:

Steganography

1. Image Hide

2. Snow: Fioles are sored in white or blank spaces of any text files.

3. MP3stegno: Used for storing files in MP3 file format which is almost undetectable.

Prevention Measures Against Steganography:

We can use softwares for setecting such files and we can also tranck the stored content for the security of the system.

Stegdetect: This simple software detects such files stored on system or network.

Stegbreak: Used to crack the password of such files by Dictionary attack.