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Articles in brute force

1. Hydra Brute Force Utility - Hydra is a powerful, multi-protocol brute force attack tool. Brute force attacks involve guessing authentication credentials in an attempt to gain access to a system. Brute force is, over time, the most successful way to break simple authentication.
2. Using Drupal XML-RPC to Bypass Authentication Failure Detection - Drupal provides robust, and largely ignored, XML remote procedure call (RPC) functionality. This functionality is available through the xmlrpc.php file that is available at the Drupal root in any installation. Any module can provide a hook into the XMLR
3. Brute Forcing Drupal - Brute forcing account credentials for Drupal 5 and 6 sites including a sample script.
4. Building an MD5 Rainbow Table - A short perl program that creates a MySQL database of MD5 values, or a rainbow table.
5. Interrogating DNS - DNS (Domain Name System) is an important component of any reconnaissance or discovery phase of an attack on internet systems.
6. Brute Forcing PHP MD5 Hashed Passwords - Recovering the plain text of an MD5 can be accomplished with a brute force attack with surprising ease.
7. OWASP Releases DirBuster 0.11.1 - Two days ago OWASP announced the release of a new version of their DirBuster tool. DirBuster is a Java based web application scanner.
8. Web Hacking Lesson 3 - Brute Force - Brute forcing a web application is a method to bypass traditional authentication checks.
9. SSHatter SSH Brute Forcer - SSHatter is a simple SSH brute forcer written in Perl.
10. Madirish Tutorial 11 (Brute Forcing) - Breaking in - using a brute forcer to find a username and password for the target system