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Password Hacking: Programs and Tools Make it Easy

Dictionary attacks are another technique among password hacking programs. It is more sophisticated than a brute force attack but not as complex as a hash function password program. Although it could be considered similar to a brute force attack, the main difference between these two is that a dictionary attack uses determined words,
hoping that the creator of the password used words that can be found in any dictionary. It may sound a bit foolish but reality has shown that people are not very careful with their passwords.

What Are the Tools Available For Password Hacking

There are many password hack tools available in the internet. Some of them are free, others are available for a small fee. For example, there is Rainbowcrack. This tool was created for cracking hash passwords through brute force; it may not be very sophisticated, but it does the job.

Another example is LC5 (formerly known as L0phtCrack). It recovers Microsoft Windows passwords using dictionaries, brute force or a combination of both. Unfortunately, it won't be available after 2006 since Symantec acquired it.

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John the Ripper is another password cracking tool, and can run in a series of platforms. Considered one of the most popular password hacking programs, it combines different cracker programs into one package. It uses the dictionary attack for searching hash passwords and also has a brute force mode.

Another Windows recovery tool is Cain and Abel. This software package uses a series of tools for password recovery, like dictionary, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks (that means that it looks for a key for accessing the password, something like the password's password).

Rixler Software is a company who offers a service of password cracking for different kind of programs, like Word, Excel, Access, VBA, Outlook Express and Internet Explorer. They offer personal and business licenses, depending on your needs.

Brutus is considered by its creator one of the fastest and more flexible password crackers in the market. The good thing about this tool is that it is a free password hacker. The bad thing is that it is only available for Windows 9x, NT and 2000.

Password hacking, passwords hackers, password protection, it doesn't matter which of those concepts are wandering through your head. If you want to be able to hack passwords, let's say, for some client who forgot his recently changed password, then you will have to practice a bit and maintain yourself updated on the latest trend of password hacking programs.
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