Certified In Cybersecurity CC · Free Practice Question Easy
Question 97
Which of these tools is commonly used to crack passwords? (★)
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A
Nslookup
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B
John the Ripper
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C
Wireshark
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D
Burp Suite
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
John the Ripper is a famous Open Source password security auditing and password recovery tool. Burp Suite is a well-known set of tools for vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and web app security (not for cracking passwords). The remaining options are both network analysis tools. Wireshark is the most used network protocol analyzer in the world. Nslookup is a network administration command-line tool for querying the Domain Name System to obtain the mapping between the domain name, IP address, or other DNS records.
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