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In this blog we will discuss about Privilege Escalation. Once gaining access to a server or a system the attacker can then escalate their privileges by gaining administrator power. There are two ways that you can achieve the administrator power, one is to do an offline attack which in this case you need to gain access to the machine, while the other way to do this is to do an online attack which is an attack from a remote location. Some examples given on offline attack tools include Rainbowcrack, Samdump2, John the ripper, and Ophcrack. Online attack tools include Brutessh, Hydra, TCPDump, Wireshark, and Hamster. You could also use network spoofing tool or also known as Man in the middle attack using Arpspoof and Ettercap.