SATAN, Crack
Frighteningly effective and instructive
Take care which hosts you run this against, if you want to keep your job
This is presumably well known
Notes:
Well, the programs that the hackers use are readily available. Don’t you want to know as much about the vulnerability of your systems as the hackers do? Well yes, but it’s too easy to put that off until you get a Round Tuit, as we did.
Once acquired, SATAN was easy to build and run, and frighteningly effective at pointing out our weaknesses.
However, you’d be well advised not to let Satan loose on someone else’s system, if you want to stay in gainful employment, I think.
Crack is well known and we had been running it periodically. One does, however, actually have to enforce the results if it’s to be of any benefit. And one never knows for sure whether the hackers have a better dictionary than the one you’re using yourself.