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Using Cain

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Using Cain

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- [Voiceover] Cain and Abel is designed to be used to collect credentials and crack passwords. And includes session hijacking a man-in-the-middle throughout poisoning. It runs natively on Windows platforms. It's been around for a while, and it is one of the more capable windows testing tools. Cain is available for download from the oxid.it website shown here. I've already downloaded and installed the software, so let's take a look at it. The main screen has a menu at the top, a set of icons for common actions, and a set of tabs. I won't review all of these right now, but I will use Cain to do a man-in-the-middle attack. I'll do this throughout poisoning, which we described earlier in the course using subterfuge as a demonstration of it's use. I'll select the sniffer tab and then click on the second icon from the left to activate the sniffer and start capturing traffic. I'll also press the plus icon which brings up a scan dialogue box, and I'll ask Cain to scan the subnet. Immediately…

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