Chapter 9
Utilman & Keylogging - Other Password Recovery Options
We have looked at several ways to grab passwords and crack them. In this bonus chapter I just wanted to cover some other possible ways that you could recover passwords from a system. This chapter isn’t really about password cracking, just some interesting ways that I have used to pull passwords or bypassed passwords in the past. If it is too technical, just read along or jump ahead to the next one, some of the techniques are very interesting. We will see how you could grab passwords or access systems during physical attacks, an attack where the security tester has physical access to a system. Then look at a couple more “untraditional” ways to recover passwords from a system. For ages the security field mantra has been, if you have physical access, you have total access. And in many cases, this is true. I performed onsite server and workstation support throughout upstate New York and Northern Pennsylvania...