BRUTE FORCE ATTACKS

Brute force attack is the most widely used attack for cracking passwords.It involves running through all the possible substitutions of keys until the correct key is found..The attacker  tries to bypass security mechanisms  and tries every possible set of  username and password until it succeeds.

Password Cracking involves a set of combinations, for example : A password of 1 character involve ''n'' presses one press for each alphabet or numerals or special character. Same as if the password is 2 character long than it would be ''n * n'' combinations.

Time to crack a password ??
It may take hours,days or months to crack the password depending on the password length and the combination used for the password. Password cracking time depends on following :-

• Length of the password
• Getting each position right of each characters placed as in password. For ex P@$$W3RD , here it is clear that 1-5-7-8 is alphabets,2-3-4 is special characters and 6th place is numerics

 You can calculate password cracking time by:-

  PASSWORD CALCULATOR

Brute Force attack software list...
There are number of  Brute Force attack tools for password cracking. Some of them are:-

1. Caine (Download)
2. John the Ripper (Download)
3. Hydra (Download)
4. Elcomsoft (Download)