Hi readers. This month in the “Tool of The Month” feature, we bring you a complete guide to Medusa password cracker. Medusa (named after a Greek gorgon with living snakes as hair and a power to turn anyone who looks up to her to stone) is a speedy, parallel and modular brute forcing tool. Medusa was built to support brute forcing of many services as possible. The features of Medusa password cracker include,
1) Thread based parallel testing which allows us to perform brute forcing against multiple hosts, users or passwords concurrently.
2) Flexible user input.
3) Modular design.
4) Support to multiple protocols.
The protocols supported by Medusa include CVS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, MSSQL, MySQL, NNTP, pcanywhere, POP3, postgres, rexec rlogin, rsh, smbnt, SMTP, SMTP-VERIFY, SNMP, SSH, SVN, telnet,…
