Are you running inside of VM? Only asking as that's the only way I have personally seen this issue.

If you are in VM, hit Ctrl+Alt and you should see your mouse cursor. To resolve that issue, you...

Hello there compaq,

Personally I would scan the hell out of the machine, see if anything comes up from them (Nessus, NMAP, etc.). You should hopefully have a good nest of initial scans that you...

Please close this thread.

I have found that JTR actually took care of this for me. I didnt try cracking the hash with JTR after BT5r1, so I was unaware of the updates to JTR.

Just goes to...

Good afternoon/morning all,

I am having some difficulty attempting to crack a SHA512 with salt hash that I pulled from BT.

I created a password of "backtrack" and pulled the hash. I then...

Id like to suggest, if you are interested in getting into Professional Pentesting, that one of the first major books you may look into will be the ISSAF.

I know thats where I started getting my...

Ive found it pretty common to see that people forget to realize most attacks are done via your network connection. There for it is not beneficial to have 8gb or more RAM.

However, would it not be...

Well I lost my original reply, because I dont know what Im doing.

But what I had said, is that my instructor is teaching us to run two or three tools. atleast nessus and nmap. And to my...

Am I wrong in thinking that I dont remember seeing RDP in Hydra's list of attacks?

Regards,
-Chrisso

Regarding the "Keyboard Freeeeze!".

Im willing to bet that your confused by the fact that you cannot see what your typing in the password block.

Try typing the password and hitting enter, and...