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Extract Potential Passwords from Web Pages

Analysis
May 17, 20061 min
Data and Information SecuritySecurity

Tool creates password dictionary lists from web sites Here's an interesting tool, Accent's (http://www.passwordrecoverytools.com/download.asp) Keyword Extractor. http://www.passwordrecoverytools.com/store/ake_setup.exe It extracts whole words from any inputted web site to create a password dictionary file for password cracking. The rationale is that in any large company, some small percentage of employees love t

Tool creates password dictionary lists from web sites

Here’s an interesting tool, Accent’s (https://www.passwordrecoverytools.com/download.asp) Keyword Extractor.

https://www.passwordrecoverytools.com/store/ake_setup.exe

It extracts whole words from any inputted web site to create a password dictionary file for password cracking. The rationale is that in any large company, some small percentage of employees love their company and its products so much that they create their passwords using something identified by the company (and possibly listed on the company’s web site). I can believe that. You work hard on a particular project for over a year, it’s not hard to believe that you might choose a password that is related to your beloved product.

The beta tool is a free download. Install the product, then choose New, and type in a web page URL to browse.

On my XP SP2 IE 7 beta, it froze and locked up, but not before creating an out_all.dat file (which by the way was not the file name I had told it to create). Heck, it’s beta.

Interesting if nothing else.

Thanks to Canadian student David McFarlane for this one.

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Roger A. Grimes is a contributing editor. Roger holds more than 40 computer certifications and has authored ten books on computer security. He has been fighting malware and malicious hackers since 1987, beginning with disassembling early DOS viruses. He specializes in protecting host computers from hackers and malware, and consults to companies from the Fortune 100 to small businesses. A frequent industry speaker and educator, Roger currently works for KnowBe4 as the Data-Driven Defense Evangelist and is the author of Cryptography Apocalypse.

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