Using Hydra To Crack The Door Open by Nikolaos Mitropoulos Take advantage of a cracking tool to test the resilience of your local or remote network servers and various other devices from a computer to a router on the network. The complexity of security range from basic computing systems to more intricate industrial systems with biometric locks or weapons like quantum computing that will come into play in the future. The more important the data is, the tighter the locks must be. The security countermeasures can range from simple to more elaborate as we climb the ladder of importance of the information to be protected. A chain is as only as strong as its weakest link. Figure 1. Base memory size used in VirtualBox installation If the password of the administrator’s is not secure enough, then the attacker may use privilege escalation to get to the data thwarting any attempt....