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Passwords are the first aspect of computer security we think about (and for plenty of people, the only one). They are the first approach for most of us in cybersecurity: our first CTF challenges, brute force attacks on wifi connections, cryptography lessons about hash validations and more — they all revolve around them.

According to Cisco’s Annual Internet Report, nearly two-thirds of the global population will have Internet access by 2023. The number of devices connected to IP networks will be more than three times the number of people in the world. The consumer segment will have a nearly three-fourths share of total devices and connections. Moreover, IoT devices will account for 50 percent of all networked devices, and about a third will be wireless.

Pentesters use a comprehensive and complete toolkit to expose different platforms and evaluate the security of an IT infrastructure. They safely try to exploit vulnerabilities and are experts at reporting failures, data leakage, or other vulnerabilities.
In this post, we present these tools and the several ways they can be applied.