RE: [lists] What ever happened to the Netbios share scanner utilities?

From: Curt Purdy (bess@inu.net)
Date: Wed Sep 14 2005 - 17:51:46 EDT


madmexATmoonstarDOTcom@securityfocus.com wrote:

<snip>
> Having said that I have a very simple question that has been
> eluding me as of late. What ever happened to the evolution
> of the Windows share scanner/brute force utility?
>
> I've done what I consider to be fairly extensive Google
> searching, but have not been able to find a utility that fits
> the following parameters:
>
> Run on windows, scans an IP range for machines with
> accessible netbios shares, and is capable of attempting a
> brute force attempt on these shares, using a wordlist it
> generates on the fly and is configurable to length and
> character content (much like Brutus).
<snip>

I believe Cain and Abel at http://www.oxid.it/cain.html fits your bill. A
very good and flexible sniffer/cracker.

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSNA, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Officer
Information Systems Security
purdy@infosysec.net
443.846.4231

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