The last two check boxes enable/disables these functions at the program's startup.

Here you can set the network card to be used by Cain's sniffer and APR features. Please carefully read the License Agreement included in this manual before using the program.Ĭain & Abel requires the configuration of some parameters everything can be set from the main configuration dialog. The author will not help or support any illegal activity done with this program.īe warned that there is the possibility that you will cause damages and/or loss of data using this software and that in no events shall the author be liable for such damages or loss of data. It covers some security aspects/weakness intrinsic of protocol's standards, authentication methods and caching mechanisms its main purpose is the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various sources, however it also ships some 'non standard' utilities for Microsoft Windows users.Ĭain & Abel has been developed in the hope that it will be useful for network administrators, teachers, security consultants/professionals, forensic staff, security software vendors, professional penetration testers and everyone else that plans to use it for ethical reasons. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It allows easy recovery of several kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems.

Ip sniffer like cain and abel