A couple of wordpress security assessment tools have popped up over the past couple of months, this has to be a good thing with the number of WordPress installations sky-rocketing. First of course there is the HackerTarget.com scan, externally facing and coming in at a fairly high level. The system downloads some of your pages, [...]
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Brute Forcing Passwords with ncrack, hydra and medusa
Lets test some password breaking tools. Password’s are often the weakest link in any system. Testing for weak passwords is an important part of security assessments. I am focusing on tools that allow remote service brute forcing. There are also powerful tools available for cracking encrypted password hashes on a local system. The three tools [...]
