CEH v9 Question of the Week: Password Cracking Tool

Johnny is a member of the hacking group Orpheus1. He is currently working on breaking into the Department of Defense’s front end Exchange Server. He was able to get into the server, located in a DMZ, by using an unused service account that had a very weak password that he was able to guess. Johnny wants to crack the administrator password, but does not have a lot of time to crack it. He wants to use a tool that already has the LM hashes computed for all possible permutations of the administrator password. What tool would be best used to accomplish this?

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Practicing to Deliver Perfect Training Stop It

Given all the work leading up to a training session—assessing business and learner needs, instructional design, slide creation, and so on—it would be easy to assume that the preparation process is well understood and consistently executed. And it is, up to a certain point. However, there is often one step in the process where it is not. That is the step between design and delivery.

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How to Gamify Your LMS Interface

There’s a video of a six-year-old boy on YouTube playing Guitar Hero. This kid was blazing fast and didn’t miss a note through the entire song. He certainly didn’t read the directions and then master the steps as he progressed through the more advanced stages. How exactly did he do it?

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