Re: Cracking FTP password so that I can convince people not to use FTP, and to instead use SFTP? How do I crack the pwd?

["Robin Wood" <dninja () gmail com>]

2008/10/11 Chip Panarchy <forumanarchy () gmail com>:
> Well thanks for the replies guys.
>
> The most helpful ones (apart from the ones explaining how the protocol
> works and differences between that and SFTP etc.) were the ones that
> suggested I use;
>
> Brutus or Hydra. (oh, and Metasploit)
>
> As my 'live-hack' will involve crack the FTP site remotely (completely
> different network, thus making Wireshark less useful).

It may be worth looking through youtube or one of the other video
sites for videos of people doing it, I used a video of someone doing a
bruteforce attack against a web login form to convince a client of why
they should use strong passwords rather than their company names.

Saves creating your own demo which if you've ever seen a failed one
you'll know that it isn't always as easy as you'd think.

Robin

------------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is sponsored by: Cenzic

Security Trends Report from Cenzic
Stay Ahead of the Hacker Curve!
Get the latest Q2 2008 Trends Report now

www.cenzic.com/landing/trends-report
------------------------------------------------------------------------