How To: Crack a Gmail Account Password In BackTrack 5

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to crack a Gmail user’s password with a brute force attack. To perform the attack, we will be using a script called Hydra, which comes preinstalled on your BackTrack 5 distribution bundle. The attack is simple; all we need is an email address for our victim and a wordlist or dictionary file. For those of you who don’t know how to create a wordlist.