Research

Yes, it is. Version 3.1, small bug fix release. Download or update your BackTrack.

People spend a lot of time preparing for effective dictionary attack. Common User Passwords Profiler (CUPP) is made to simplify this attack method that is often used as last resort in penetration testing and forensic crime investigations. A weak password might be very short or only use alphanumeric characters, making decryption simple. A weak password can also be one that is easily guessed by someone profiling the user, such as a birthday, nickname, address, name of a pet or relative, or a common word such as God, love, money or password.

Going through different combinations and algorithms, CUPP can predict specific target passwords by exploiting human vulnerabilities. In password creation, as in many aspects of life, everybody tends to the original solution, but thanks to human nature, we all tend to originality in the same way, leading to almost absolute predictability.

Common User Passwords Profiler version 3 comes with some fixes and new options!

Download cupp v3

… Modern Wireless Devices

Several months ago, we published all information that is necessary to build an own wireless keyboard sniffer. We called it Keykeriki and we also have a project page for this stuff. This keyboard sniffing device is able to capture and decrypt keystrokes, sent by Microsoft and Logitech 27 MHz based keyboards. And we got stuck there, somehow. We prepared PCBs for you and we still have some, but: We don’t know if it’s worth ordering more PCBs right now, at least there are still several people out there, interested in getting such a PCB for building this device. But why shouldn’t it not worth ordering more PCBs right now..? Well, we did some more research as briefly announced on the project page. If you wrote us an email, it might be still not answered yet… well, we’re sorry about this, but we were really, really close to completion of this project – every day. For the past six months. continue

It was great fun again to see how Keykeriki devices are built by many people with different soldering skill levels. SMD soldering is not very difficult if you got the right tools and some patience to learn. Most of the devices already run. For protecting the individuals, i added some filters to the faces, but the iPhone camera is so bad, I doubt it would make that much of a difference.