Welcome back, my tenderfoot hackers!

Not too long ago, I showed how to find variousonlinedevices using Shodan. As you remember, Shodan is a different type of search engine. Instead of indexing the content of websites, it pulls the banner of web servers on all types of online devices and then indexes the content of those banners.

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Cost of Tool: Free. THC Hydra, or simply ‘Hydra’, is another very popular password hacking tool that is often referred to in the same context as John The Ripper. The easiest way to describe the difference between John The Ripper (JTR) and THC Hydra is that JTR is an offline password cracker whilst Hydra is an online password cracker. Password Cracker by G&G Software is a tiny, free, totally portable utility that can recover lost passwords from applications. Passwords are perhaps the weakest links in the cyber-security chain.

This info can be from any type of device including web servers, routers, webcams, SCADA systems, home security systems, and basically anything that has a web interface, which in 2014, means just about everything.

I mentioned in my first Shodan tutorial that you can often access these devices by simply using the default username and password, as administrators are often lazy and neglectful. The question we want to address in this tutorial is—what do we do when the site requires credentials and the defaults don't work?

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There is tool that is excellent for cracking online passwords and it is called THC-Hydra. Fortunately, it is built into our Kali distribution, so we don't need to download, install, or compile anything to use it.