What is Malevolence? Malevolence is a simple application created by Marukka which extracts login/password information from the system in a unshadowed format. It has been discovered there a numerous ways to obtain the passwd information from netinfo including simply typing the command command "nidump passwd ." Once you have the encrypted password file it may be decrypted with a method refered to as cracking or using a bruteforce attack. Directions: Malevolence is very easy to use, in either Terminal.app or though a telnet session just run Malevolence and it will create a file called "index.html" in the same directory as Malevolence. Then just open up the web browser of your choosing and view the index.html file that Malevolence created. Download: Malevolence (requires Mac OS X user account) Feedback Time: We would love to hear your feedback! To write us a email click or email macsec@securemac.com. Enter Email Address: Enter your message: Select Either of These Two Buttons