The Cybersecurity major in Old Dominion University required I take a class called “Cybersecurity Techniques and Operations” or “CYSE 301.” In that class we had to do a system password cracking project.
The project detailed I needed to create a different list of six users with a simple password (separated into two groups) and add it to Kali virtual machine. Then use John the Ripper to implement a dictionary attack to crack the passwords. Also, it detailed I needed to create a list of three users with a simple password in a Windows 7 virtual machine and use John the Ripper to crack the passwords. Finally, the project detailed I needed to use the same set of accounts I created in the previous step, then use “Cain and Abel” to implement either a brute force attack or a dictionary attack to crack the passwords. Also, for extra credit the project mentioned I needed to decrypt an MD5 cipher and an encrypted ZIP file (I made my best attempt at the extra credit).
