Cain & Abel 4.9.40

Cain & Abel is an old school tool that has finally started updating. I remember using this a while ago when I first started getting into security and more namely, hacking. Cain & Abel as told by the official website is a password recovery tool for Windows. This isn't your ordinary password cracker. Cain & Abel can do so much more and has a whole bunch of features you can find useful for network activities. It's also super easy and quick to install.

Sniffing the Network

Cain & Abel make it easy to sniff your own network's traffic by performing a "main in the middle" attack. This allows you to become a person on the network that basically relays the information to where it needs to be allowing you to view the traffic along it's way. You can perform trace routes and even view the local workgroups and other connected computers.

Password Tools

The password tools let you import local passwords like from MS Outlook user accounts. The password cracker also cracks individual password hashes. You can perform dictionary attacks on the password hashes until it finds one, it is highly threaded so it shouldn't be a problem cracking multiple hashes.

Remote Registry & Shares

Along with viewing the users on your network you can even look into their registry if the remote registry is enabled. You can also view and interact with the local shares on the network.Cain & Abel is a very nice and fast alternative to viewing shares than even Windows. You can help diagnose problems on the network with this tool making it a staple in the windows users arsenal. You can do most of these via the command line, but this give a nice clean interface so we aren't scrolling through hundreds if not thousands of console lines and logs.