RE: FYI: FW: Cisco Secret 5 and John Password Cracker

  • From: "Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <sbradcpa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 12:37:39 -0800

What they don't tell you is normally in these kinds of programs what they get first are the low hanging fruit.

Short sucky passwords, LMhashes, if you have weaknesses from the get go... in my Win2k days when LMhashes were on the wire, LC4/5 could nail short 7 character passwords in mere seconds.

If your password is of proper length and complexity, you throw out the 9x and NT clients and lose the legacy... you can attempt to brute force in all you want but good luck.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/d/0/ad0f04a3-21b2-4d79-9049-f5fadb632ace/SEC401-JesperJohansson.pdf

And don't tell Tony how Physical security is still an issue as well.


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