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Credential Access with Cain & Abel

From manipulating network traffic to cracking user credentials, this course will give you the skills and understanding to further your red teaming objectives towards exploitation, credential access, and lateral movement.

Intermediate
25m
(9)

Created by Jeff Stein

Last Updated Jul 28, 2020

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Credential Access with Cain & Abel

From manipulating network traffic to cracking user credentials, this course will give you the skills and understanding to further your red teaming objectives towards exploitation, credential access, and lateral movement.

Intermediate
25m
(9)

Created by Jeff Stein

Last Updated Jul 28, 2020

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What you'll learn

Cain & Abel is a versatile tool for the Windows operating system which can help further your red teaming objectives with techniques ranging from manipulating network traffic to cracking passwords using brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. In this course, Credential Access with Cain & Abel, you will gain the ability to access credential sets in a victim network. First, you will learn to perform network reconnaissance from the Windows operating system. Next, you will discover how you can use a man-in-the-middle attack to access the credentials transmitted between victims on a network. Finally, you will explore how to remotely exploit a victim for harvested credentials which can then be cracked by the tool suite. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Cain & Abel needed to access valid credential sets and move through a network during an attack engagement.

Credential Access with Cain & Abel
Intermediate
25m
(9)
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Jeff Stein  - Pluralsight course - Credential Access with Cain & Abel
Jeff Stein
3 courses 4.4 author rating 13 ratings

Jeff Stein is an Information Security Architect. He holds a master’s degree in Information Security & Assurance and numerous security and IT certifications, including his CISSP.

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