There is no shortage of wireless tools for a cracker or a hacker performing a security assessment or a pen test. Over time, tools come and go as technologies change and vulnerabilities are fixed. Therefore, it is important to understand what the tools do and where they fit in the methods of a security assessment. [...]

Using Crack is very easy. Crack is a self-compiling program. One of Cracks strong points are it’s large number of rule sets which are used to create permutated words. Everytime you run Crack it builds a custom wordlist that incorporates username and information in comments field from password file. This is helpfull because it is [...]

sucrack is multithreaded a Linux/UNIX tool for cracking local user accounts via wordlist bruteforcing su. In order to run sucrack, you need to specify a wordlist: sucrack wordlist.txt You generally will have two options for printing the progress and the statistics (if you have compiled sucrack with the `–enable-statistics’ flag). Either by using ansi escapes [...]