Security Basics: Re: Fwd: How does the Cain and Abel SAM dump works?

[krymson () gmail com]

The Cain & Abel documentation gets pretty detailed with this process: http://www.oxid.it/ca_um/


I think any of the tool docs or information here would be useful as well: 
http://www.openwall.com/passwords/microsoft-windows-nt-2000-xp-2003-vista


Good luck in your search! There should be a ton of pertinent information on this topic! :)



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Hi Friends,

Nowaday, I am studying on the Topic - Cracking Windows password.

There are lot of tools out there which can dump LM and NTLM hashes for
you. But as far i know, you can't touch the SAM file when windows is
running, so, how does these tools work.

Is the sam dumped in-memory?

Regards
V