hydra

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "\n\t\t\t\t  H Y D R A\n\n                      (c) 2001-2023 by van Hauser / THC\n             \u003cvh@thc.org\u003e https://github.com/vanhauser-thc/thc-hydra\n       Many modules were written by David (dot) Maciejak @ gmail (dot) com\n                 BFG code by Jan Dlabal \u003cdlabaljan@gmail.com\u003e\n\n  \t\t    Licensed under AGPLv3 (see LICENSE file)\n\n           Please do not use in military or secret service organizations,\n                          or for illegal purposes.\n      (This is the wish of the author and non-binding. Many people working\n       in these organizations do not care for laws and ethics anyway.\n            You are not one of the \"good\" ones if you ignore this.)\n\n           NOTE: No, this is not meant to be a markdown doc! old school!\n\n\nHydra in the most current GitHub state can be directly downloaded via Docker:\n```\ndocker pull vanhauser/hydra\n```\n\n\nINTRODUCTION\n------------\nNumber one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password\nsecurity study shows.\nThis tool is a proof-of-concept code to give researchers and security\nconsultants the possibility of showing how easy it would be to gain unauthorized\naccess from a remote to a system.\n\nTHIS TOOL IS FOR LEGAL PURPOSES ONLY!\n\nThere are already several login hacker tools available; however, none of them\nsupport more than one protocol to attack or support parallelized\nconnects.\n\nIt was tested to compile cleanly on Linux, Windows/Cygwin, Solaris,\nFreeBSD/OpenBSD, QNX (Blackberry 10), and MacOS.\n\nCurrently, this tool supports the following protocols:\n Asterisk, AFP, Cisco AAA, Cisco auth, Cisco enable, CVS, Firebird, FTP,\n HTTP-FORM-GET, HTTP-FORM-POST, HTTP-GET, HTTP-HEAD, HTTP-POST, HTTP-PROXY,\n HTTPS-FORM-GET, HTTPS-FORM-POST, HTTPS-GET, HTTPS-HEAD, HTTPS-POST,\n HTTP-Proxy, ICQ, IMAP, IRC, LDAP, MEMCACHED, MONGODB, MS-SQL, MYSQL, NCP, NNTP, Oracle Listener,\n Oracle SID, Oracle, PC-Anywhere, PCNFS, POP3, POSTGRES, Radmin, RDP, Rexec, Rlogin,\n Rsh, RTSP, SAP/R3, SIP, SMB, SMTP, SMTP Enum, SNMP v1+v2+v3, SO",
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