Best password cracking techniques !

Password cracking techniques 2020

What is password?

A password is a word/string of characters used for user authentication to provide security and which is to be kept secret from those not allowed access.

What is password cracking?

In simple words it is stealing of password without taking permission from the user.

Different password cracking techniques:

1.Phishing:

So, basically it is an attack of gathering sensitive information of person or target such as username, password, email id etc.

Gathering sensitive info may also includes bank details, credit card, debit card information and many more.

In this attack a hacker disguises himself as a trustworthy entity then he meets you or he tricks you into your sensitive information into that fake web application. So, this is phishing.

In another scenario,

You probably seen it you receive an email from your bank or trusted company and it’s asking you for information and shocking is that it’s looks real. But it’s designed to fool you into handling over important information.

This is called phishing.

2.Social engineering:

In simple words it is the art of manipulating peoples in attempt to obtain confidential information by tricking them into clicking a malicious link giving the hacker access to information.

Different types of tactics that are used in the world of social engineering:

• Phishing
• Vishing 
• Pretexting 
• BaitingTail 
• gating

  

3.Rainbow table attack:

It is a precomputed table for reversing cryptographic hash functions used for cracking password hashes such as char 256, md5 etc.

Now here’s come the new word precomputed.What does it mean?

It means this table has already had the hashing done to it.

This, means inside the table is a password and a hash of that password

Reason why rainbow table is useful is because it will significantly speed things up as traditional word list or brute force attack will need to take password hash it then, compare it with it.

With a rainbow table there is no need to hash any of the passwords as that already been done.

4.Dictionary attack:

It is a simple and a faster attack by dictionary mean any digital resources that have a word like Wikipedia this is how it works.

Steps:

• From a dictionary, hackers generate thousands of candidate digests. They create a huge look up table with candidate digests.

• Hackers compare these candidate digests to those in a stolen digest the file. If there’s a match they get the password.

5.Brute force attack:

It is when hackers use computers to systematically cycle through each letter in a character set.

In this attack we keep guessing passwords of others until end but we humans cannot guess more than 100 passwords so for guessing hackers use computer programs.

Brute force attacks try all possible combinations until end and when password matches then it tells us what the correct password is.

6.Malware attack:

Malware comes in many forms. Ransomware locks infected systems until the victim pays a ransom to unlock it.

Credential stealers are used to get usernames and passwords for email and other accounts.

7.Shoulder surfing:

Shoulder surfing is when you look over people’s shoulders figuratively and literally and look at what they’re doing.

We are looking at their data basically you’re snooping over people’s shoulder and looking at does not to be the shoulders could be around their shoulders.

Especially common in airports, coffee shops etc.

Ways to prevent shoulder surfers:

• Keep back to wall
• Use a filter over screen
•  Close your laptop lid
• Never work on private stuff in public places

Geeky Kaushal

Hi. I’m Designer of this blog. A Geek guy and a Tech Reviewer, Digital Marketing and Business Enthusiast, CyberSecurity Enthusiast, Space Technologies Enthusiast, Full time Content Writer, Stock and Crypto Market Critic. Inspired to make things looks better.

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