THC-Hydra 5.3 review

THC-Hydra is the best parallized login hacker: for Samba, FTP, IMAP, Telnet, POP3, HTTP Auth, LDAP, MySQL, VNC, ICQ, NNTP, Socks5, PC

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 202K Developer: The Hackers Choice

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THC-Hydra is the best parallized login hacker: for Samba, FTP, IMAP, Telnet, POP3, HTTP Auth, LDAP, MySQL, VNC, ICQ, NNTP, Socks5, PCNFS, Cisco and more.

Includes SSL support and is part of Nessus. Visit the project web site to download Win32, Palm and ARM binaries.

Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows. Hydra is a parallized login cracker which supports numerous protocols to attack. New modules are easy to add, beside that, it is flexible and very fast.

Currently this tool supports:

TELNET, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP-PROXY, SMB, SMBNT, MS-SQL, MYSQL, REXEC, RSH, RLOGIN, CVS, SNMP, SMTP-AUTH, SOCKS5, VNC, POP3, IMAP, NNTP, PCNFS, ICQ, SAP/R3, LDAP2, LDAP3, Postgres, Teamspeak, Cisco auth, Cisco enable, LDAP2, Cisco AAA (incorporated in telnet module).

This tool is a proof of concept code, to give researchers and security consultants the possiblity to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system.

This tool is for legal purposes only!

If this tool is used as part of a commercial service (e.g. pentest), name, version and web address of this tool must be mentioned in the report.

If this tool is incorporated into a commercial tool (means: it costs money, has license costs or upgrade fees, etc.) or called by it, the name, version and web address of this tool must be mentioned in the report output of the tool. Addtionally, a commercial version, key file, etc. must be made available to the author free of charge.