Software Development Tricky

Friday, 22 December 2017

How to crack a password?

      (4)   Guess

It methods involves guessing. Passwords such as computer, password, admin etc…. are commonly used or set as default passwords. If they have not been changed or if the user is careless when selecting passwords, then can be easily crack that password.



      (5)   Spidering

Many corporate passwords that contains their company information. This information can be found in company website, social media such as Facebook, twitter, etc…. Its gathers information from these sources to come up with word lists. The word list is then used to perform dictionary and brute force attacks



The bellow the table describe that gathering words list

Gather Information
Meaning
1966
Founder  birth year
Raghuvaran
Founder Name
Mega
Company first name
Cricket, chess & football
Founder happies
Ragu357
Fonder first name and 10th marks
Ragu19661601
Founder first name and birth date


      (6)   Phishing

There’s an easy way to hack: ask the user for his or her password. A phishing email leads the unsuspecting reader to a faked online banking, payment or other site in order to login and put some terrible problem with their security.

If we login that fake site, the hacker easy to get our login information.




      (7)   Social Engineering

A favorite of the social engineer is to telephone an office posing as an IT security tech guy and simply ask for the network password
Another telephone a banking posing as bank manager and that guy say you got million dollar prize, then simply ask your debit card pin or account information.







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