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Kali Linux Can Now Use Cloud GPUs for Password-Cracking

posted by martyb on Sunday April 30 2017, @06:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the horrect-borse-stattery-caple dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Think passwords, people. Think long, complex passwords. Not because a breach dump's landed, but because the security-probing-oriented Kali Linux just got better at cracking passwords.

Kali is a Debian-based Linux that packs in numerous hacking and forensics tools. It's well-regarded among white hat hackers and investigators, who appreciate its inclusion of the tools of their trades.

The developers behind the distro this week gave it a polish, adding new images optimised for GPU-using instances in Azure and Amazon Web Services. The extra grunt the GPUs afford, Kali's backers say, will enhance the distribution's password-probing powers. There's also better supoprt for GPU cracking, hence our warning at the top of this story: anyone can use Kali and there's no way to guarantee black hats won't press it into service. And they can now do so on as many GPU-boosted cloud instances as they fancy paying for.

Could some users of Kali Linux technically be called "thugs?"

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  • (Score: 2) by rigrig on Sunday April 30 2017, @09:10PM (1 child)

    by rigrig (5129) <soylentnews@tubul.net> on Sunday April 30 2017, @09:10PM (#502000) Homepage

    Because once someone seriously wants to target that bank they'll start brute forcing logins, locking out lots of customers. Then the bank has to choose between leaving all those customers unable to login, or disabling their three-strike policy...

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday May 01 2017, @01:49AM

    by hendrikboom (1125) on Monday May 01 2017, @01:49AM (#502093) Homepage Journal

    The three-strike rule is particularly difficult for people with disabilities, such as Parkinson's disease. They simply cannot type the password correctly in only three tries.