Hacking and Cracking

Codes Cracked , Machines Hacked

Techniques:
Stealing Looking over shoulder
Guessing Familiarity
Brute Force combination of letters, numbers and symbols
Dictionary Attack combination of words
Hybrid Method Dictionary + Brute Force
Cracking Software
1) Take string of characters and encrypting them
2) Comparing the encrypted text against the password in encrypted
form
3) If both are same, then string of characters is PW

To save time the software tries the most likely combinations.
99.2% of E-com PWs were cracked given enough time.