Benefits of Using the Tool Cain & Abel

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ITT-370 TOPIC 3 DQ 1
According to Geier (2015), Cain & Abel is a multifaceted password cracking and recovery tool that also incorporates Wi-Fi sniffing, stumbling, as well as cracking capabilities. Password crackers and hackers could use the application positively to retrieve forgotten passcodes and negatively by private persons to obtain other people’s data without their knowledge or consent. Cain & Abel enables easy recovery of different passwords from encrypted locations. The application can recover passwords by employing network sniffers, brute force, and cryptanalysis attacks (Filiol et al., 2021). This way, the tool solves password ‘misplacement’ problems because it helps recover the password instantly at an increasingly commendable speed. It is valuable software for network analysts and administrators in the recovery process. According to Geier (2015), Cain & Abel is specifically beneficial when conducting penetration testing. As an application emphasizing network passwords and keys via penetration, it can also apply network sniffing to establish vulnerabilities (Filiol et al., 2021). Therefore, netw...