I. Objectives

* Familiarize with the different tools in cracking passwords

II. Procedure

I. Identify the use of the following Password Cracking Tools

a. LCP
It is designed to help administrators identify and remediate security vulnerabilities that results from the use of weak and/or easily guessed passwords that users use. It is also designed to help administrators recover lost passwords and streamline migration of users to another authentication system.

b. Crack
It is designed to allow system administrators locate users who may have used weak passwords and are vulnerable to a dictionary attack.

c. Access Passview
This utility reveals the database password of every password-protected mdb file that was created with the use of Microsoft Access 95/97/2000/XP or with the use of Jet Database Engine 3.0/4.0. It can be used to recover any lost Access Database password.

d. MS Access Database Password Decoder
It is a program that helps users to recover any lost or forgotten passwords for MS Access database files and user-level passwords that are stored in the workgroup information file.

e. Asterisk Logger
It is a program that can be used to reveal passwords stored behind asterisks in standard password text-boxes.

f. CHAOS Generator
It is an application designed to generate passwords of any length and character content. CHAOS Generator will create alphabetic, numeric, alphanumeric or all keyboard characters passwords of user-defined lengths. The passwords are displayed and can be copied to your clipboard.

II. Choose two of the tools above and demonstrate how to use the tool.