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Most dictionaries, as well as popular culture, mistakenly define “hacker” with a malicious connotation. It’s time to change that. Continue reading We Need to Change the Dictionary Definition of ‘Hacker’
Maybe it’s the silly season of high summer, or maybe a PR bunny at a cybersecurity company has simply hit the jackpot with a story syndicated by the Press Association, but the non-tech media has been earnestly talking about a call upon the Cambridge Dictionary to remove the word “illegal” from their definition of “Hacker”. The weighty tome from the famous British university lists the word as either “a person who is skilled in the use of computer systems, often one who illegally obtains access to private computer systems:” in its learners dictionary, or as “ …read more
Continue reading Hackers Want Cambridge Dictionary to Change Their Definition
I want to test a mobile application that runs on both Android and iOS against a brute force/dictionary attack and see if the application uses a lockout mechanism and evaluate how good it is if it does. Could you recommend any… Continue reading Tools for performing brute force attack (Android and iOS applications)
Can the WiFi protocol recognize when a brute force or dictionary attack on it is occurring? WiFi gives the user an authentication failed message after entering an incorrect WiFi password several times.
Continue reading Can brute force or dictionary attacks be detected when using the WiFi protocol?
I need to generate a word-list txt file in-which I can:
customize which characters to include/ set the word length (minimum & maximum characters per word)/ brute force (include all combinations of the characters set)/ can… Continue reading Generate Word-list with gpu support [on hold]
To polish my penetration testing skills I want to attempt to crack NTLM/NTLMv2 hashes (via dictionary/wordlist attack) extracted from Active Directory / SAM database, where the underlying passwords consist of 14+ characters, … Continue reading Tools and computer specs for password cracking [closed]
I’m trying to generate a wordlist, but I need some help with it. Let’s say I execute the command:
crunch 1 1 -p cat dog cow
Crunch will generate the following:
catcowdog
catdogcow
cowcatdog
cowdogcat
dogcatcow
dogcowcat
But I also ne… Continue reading Crunch wordlist with different number of words
I am curious about password cracking methods like dictionary and brute force attacks. Nowadays passwords are stored as hashes and not plaintext on the server. Then how can the plaintext passwords in the dictionary be compared… Continue reading How does the attacker know what algorithm and salt to use in a dictionary attack?
The 2018 “new words list” is out, when Oxford lexicographers tell you what’s gone mainstream – EULAs, for instance; selfies; and ransomware. Continue reading Ransomware makes it into the Oxford English Dictionary
This question concerns dictionary attacks conducted:
Over the Internet, using programs like THC Hydra
Via protocols such as HTTP, FTP and SMTP
I believe I’m right in thinking that: a) due to the sophisticated layers of security they te… Continue reading Is it still possible to run an online dictionary attack from a single machine, without anonymisation?