Cain and Abel 4.5 just released

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols

New features:

  • WEP cracking speed up via wireless ARP requests injection (AirPcap USB adapter is needed).
    This feature has been successfully tested with Airpcap drivers v2.0 beta TX.
  • Ability to deauthenticate client stations from Access Points.
  • Added Windows Vista compatibility in NTLM Hashes Dumper, LSA Hashes Dumper and Syskey Dumper for hive files.

Post scriptum

Compliance Mandates

  • Network Discovery :

    PCI DSS 11.2, SOX A13.3, GLBA 16CFR Part 314.4(c), HIPAA 164.308(a)(8), FISMA RA-5


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