Which of the following tools is used to make fake authentication certificates?

Question

Options

• AObiwan
• BNetcat
• CWinSSLMiM
• DBrutus

• A
  6% (3)
• B
  12% (6)
• C
  78% (38)
• D
  4% (2)

Explanation

WinSSLMiM is an HTTPS Man in the Middle attacking tool. It includes FakeCert, a tool used to make fake certificates. It can be used to exploit the Certificate Chain vulnerability in Internet Explorer. The tool works under Windows 9x/2000. For example, Generate fake certificate: fc -s Answer: D is incorrect. Brutus is a password cracking tool that performs both dictionary and brute force attacks in which passwords are randomly generated from given characters. Brute forcing can be performed on the following authentications: HTTP (Basic Authentication) HTTP (HTML Form/CGI) POP3 (Post Office Protocol v3) FTP (File Transfer Protocol) SMB (Server Message Block) Answer: A is incorrect. Obiwan is a Web password cracking tool that is used to perform brute force and hybrid attacks. It is effective against HTTP connections for Web servers that allow unlimited failed login attempts by the user. Obiwan uses wordlists as well as alphanumeric characters as possible passwords. Answer: B is incorrect. Netcat is a freely available networking utility that reads and writes data across network connections by using the TCP/IP protocol. Netcat has the following features: It provides outbound and inbound connections for TCP and UDP ports. It provides special tunneling such as UDP to TCP, with the possibility of specifying all network It is a good port scanner. It contains advanced usage options, such as buffered send-mode (one line every N seconds), and hexdump (to stderr or to a specified file) of transmitted and received data. It is an optional RFC854 telnet code parser and responder.

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