medusa is described as 'Medusa is intended to be a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer. The goal is to support as many services which allow remote authentication as possible' and is a penetration testing tool in the network & admin category. There are 1 alternatives to medusa for Mac, Windows and Linux. The best medusa alternative is THC-Hydra, which is both free and Open Source.
Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows. 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.
