It is also known as a “word list attack”.

Dictionary Attack or “direct mode”, is a very simple attack mode.

Hashcat utils: small utilities for advanced password cracking with these utilities, different types of attacks can be implemented:.

Hashcat is the world’s fastest and most advanced password recovery utility.

There are tools, such as hashcat, capable of reaching levels of 100 GH (Giga Hash) in password cracking techniques, using the GPU in a suitable way instead of the CPU sequential calculation. You can also use OpenCL (Open Computer Language) (implemented by ) a standard used by AMD / ATI. When using CUDA, developers program in popular languages such as C, C ++, Fortran, Python, and MATLAB and express parallelism through extensions in the form of few basic keywords. In the GPU-accelerated applications, the sequential part of the workload runs on the CPU, optimized for single-threaded performance, while the compute-intensive application part runs on thousands of GPU cores in parallel. APIs provided by graphics card manufacturers like Nvidia.ĬUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) development environment is used by software programmers to write applications which perform parallel computing on the NVIDIA video cards GPUs. The great speed of this software relies in the ability to use APIs on GPUs. There are highly advanced tools which allow password recovery which can also be used as a password cracker.

Can you avoid these attacks by not sending users and passwords?

There are many techniques that can be used to find information linked to users’ accesses.

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