1. Learn where passwords are stored and how to use the password cracking tool “John the Ripper” to crack hashes gathered from a Linux machine.

2. Learn where passwords are stored how to use the password cracking tool “Hashcat” to crack hashes gathered from a Linux machine

3. Understand how to access Windows password hashes, how to identify the administrator, guest, and user accounts from a hashdump ouput and how to crack a common windows hashing algorithm

4. Understand the inherent weakness of the Windows LM hashing algorithm and why it should never be used or supported on modern systems

5. Understand where Domain Controllers store the password hashes of users in a domain and how they can be cracked

6. Learn about modern password cracking techniques. The use of wordlist “rules” that can increase the likelihood of cracking a user’s password by transforming individual words into multiple variations.