THC-HYDRA v6.4 - Fast network logon cracker
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THC-HYDRA is a very fast network logon cracker which support many different services. This tool is a proof of concept code, to give researchers and security consultants the possibility to show how easy it would be to gain unauthorized access from remote to a system. It was tested to compile cleanly on Linux, Windows/Cygwin, Solaris, FreeBSD and OSX.

Changelog for thc-hydra v6.4
Update SIP module to extract and use external IP addr return from server error to bypass NAT
Update SIP module to use SASL lib
Update email modules to check clear mode when TLS mode failed
Update Oracle Listener module to work with Oracle DB 9.2
Update LDAP module to support Windows 2008 active directory simple auth
Fix to the connection adaptation engine which would loose planned attempts
Fix make script for CentOS, reported by ya0wei
Print error when a service limits connections and few pairs have to be tested
Improved Mysql module to only init/close when needed
Added patch from the FreeBSD maintainers
Module usage help does not need a target to be specified anymore
configure script now honors /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ directory

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