CERTIFIED-IN-CYBERSECURITY Question #48: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

The correct answer is B: John the Ripper. John the Ripper is a famous Open Source password security auditing and password recovery tool. Burp Suite is a well-known set of tools for vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and web app security (not for cracking passwords). The remaining options are both network analys

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Question

Which of these tools is commonly used to crack passwords? ()

Options

ANslookup
BJohn the Ripper
CWireshark
DBurp Suite

Explanation

John the Ripper is a famous Open Source password security auditing and password recovery tool. Burp Suite is a well-known set of tools for vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and web app security (not for cracking passwords). The remaining options are both network analysis tools. Wireshark is the most used network protocol analyzer in the world. Nslookup is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System to obtain the mapping between the domain name, IP address, or other DNS records.

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#Password cracking#Security tools#Authentication attacks

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