![]() ![]() Most people (especially those non-IT savvy, will base their ‘secret’ passwords on words and nouns that they will not easily forget. A little bit of social engineering and the chances of finding the correct password for a user are multiplied. As we know, the majority of users have weak passwords and all too often they are easily guessed. I plan to write a ‘Brute Force Hacking’ post in 2021 but since this post is all about Hydra let’s place the brute-force attack concept within this password-guessing tool.īrute force just means that the program launches a relentless barrage of passwords at login to guess the password. In information security (IT security), password cracking is the methodology of guessing passwords from databases that have been stored in or are in transit within a computer system or network.Ī common approach and the approach used by Hydra and many other similar pentesting tools and programs are referred to as Brute Force. ![]() Hydra is a brute force password cracking tool. How do we defend against Hydra and brute force attacks?. ![]()
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