--- Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was handed a copy of CAIN 2.0 today. And boy was I surprised.... > > Cain is a wonderful little (fits on a floppy) windows utility that > will > show you all the passwords on a target windows computer. All you need > do > is slip the floppy in the drive, explore it, click on cane.exe and > bingo... with in minutes it will show you all the passwords that the > user(s) have set on their desktop. For the really hard passwords, > there's > a "brute force" attack that can be performed in ferreting the > passwords > out of the target... It'll even snoop the smb stream and grab your > samba > passwords too. So far it's cracked all the 98 machines at work... The > longest time it took was less than 2 minutes to figure out a really > tough > 8 character password. Most of the "attacks" were instantaneous. > > It's hard to believe that a whole industry relies on such garbage as > windows. Truly amazing.
In fairness to M$, the passwords used on anything before W2K weren't encrypted in any real way. Can this thing crack a kerberos password on W2K or XP? ===== ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step help: http://netllama.ipfox.com . __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards� http://movies.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
