Cracking Passwords: Brute-force Attack with Hydra (CLI) + xHydra (GTK)

Recently on Security StackExchange, I saw a lot of people asking how to use properly THC Hydra for Password Cracking, so in this post I'm going to explain how to install the command line utility, and also how to install the graphical user interface (GUI) for it. Then you can find step by step instructions on how to use this tool properly to attack an http-form-post that simulates a Login form for a corporate website. Hope you enjoy this post as much as I did when I was writing it.

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Cracking a Simple Application (ByPass Login)

In this post I am going to explain how to solve a "Crackme" challenge that I found on the Internet, in this example you can see a Login form but we don't know the Username or the Password, so what do you think could be a possible solution?, or the first step to solve it?

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