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Introduction
You think your passwords are strong and secure? You are mistaken! There are numerous options to secure your password, but when it comes to the Password Cracker THC Hydra, you are done. However, you can use some of the cryptography techniques to secure your password or at least make it difficult to crack.
It’s very important to mention that this tool is just proof of concept, which gives researchers and security teams the ability to see how they can protect themselves against such attacks.
Password Cracker THC Hydra
Hydra is a parallelized password cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. It is very fast and flexible, and new modules are easy to add. This tool makes it possible for researchers and security consultants to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access to a system remotely.
You will often come across information that indicates that the hydra is one of the fastest network logon crackers, also you’ll see that hydra supports multiple protocol attacks, unlike other hackers tool.
Hydra supports the following protocols:
- Asterisk, AFP, Cisco AAA, Cisco auth, Cisco enable, CVS, Firebird, FTP,
- HTTP-FORM-GET, HTTP-FORM-POST, HTTP-GET, HTTP-HEAD, HTTP-POST,
- HTTP-PROXY, HTTPS-FORM-GET, HTTPS-FORM-POST, HTTPS-GET, HTTPS-HEAD,
- HTTPS-POST, HTTP-Proxy, ICQ, IMAP, IRC, LDAP, MS-SQL, MYSQL, NCP, NNTP,
- Oracle Listener, Oracle SID, Oracle, PC-Anywhere, PCNFS, POP3, POSTGRES, RDP,Rexec,
- Rlogin, Rsh, RTSP, SAP/R3, SIP, SMB, SMTP, SMTP Enum, SNMP v1+v2+v3,SOCKS5,
- SSH (v1 and v2), SSHKEY, Subversion, Teamspeak (TS2), Telnet, VMware-Auth, VNC and XMPP.
