Package: medusa (2.2-7 and others)

fast, parallel, modular, login brute-forcer for network services

Medusa is intended to be a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer. The goal is to support as many services which allow remote authentication as possible. The author considers following items as some of the key features of this application:

     * Thread-based parallel testing. Brute-force testing can be
       performed against multiple hosts, users or passwords
       concurrently.
     * Flexible user input. Target information (host/user/password) can
       be specified in a variety of ways. For example, each item can be
       either a single entry or a file containing multiple entries.
       Additionally, a combination file format allows the user to
       refine their target listing.
     * Modular design. Each service module exists as an
       independent .mod file. This means that no modifications are
       necessary to the core application in order to extend the
       supported list of services for brute-forcing.

Tags: System Administration: Monitoring, Implemented in: C, User Interface: interface::commandline, network::scanner, Network Protocol: TCP, UDP, Role: role::program, scope::utility, Security: Authentication

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