John the Ripper: Password Cracking Tutorial and Review

John the Ripper is a popular password cracking tool that can be used to perform brute-force attacks using different encryption technologies and helpful wordlists. It’s often what pen-testers and ethical hackers use to find the true passwords behind hashes. This open-source package is free to download and has several modules for generating hashes from a […]

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