Collaborate Disseminate
I purposely created a fresh wordpress install to test hashcat against myself and curious if by having the database SQL file along with the wp-config.php file containing 100% of the DB’s credentials (including the salt/keys ge… Continue reading WordPress Hashcat Decrypt / Decryption (I have wp-config.php file)
I’d like to learn a bit more about MD5 collisions.
So let’s assume I have a message m:
m = somesecretmessage
And I hash that message:
z = md5(m)
The only know information is z. I do not know m.
How would I be able to gene… Continue reading Tools to produce an MD5 collision?
I’m trying to crack a password I set on a zip file using Hash Suite but it doesn’t seem to work for me (not sure if I’m doing everything correctly).
Basically, this is what I’ve done:
Created a text file, compressed it to… Continue reading Can I crack a zip file using Hash Suite on Windows?
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I am aware that you can do something like go to md5online.org or something, but I want to know how to do it manually. For example, you might encrypt it like by taking the length of it and turning the number to hexadecimal. I … Continue reading How do you manually encrypt text to an md5 hash?
When I say similar, I’m referring to the Hamming distance, the Levenshtein distance, or a similar string distance metric that measures how similar or dissimilar two strings are.
For instance, are there two plaintext strings … Continue reading For a hashing function like MD5, how similar can two plaintext strings be and still generate the same hash?
If I generate 128 bit, 512 bit and 1024 bit random strings using either:
A native rand() function (C, PHP, Python, etc)
OpenSSL random bytes
Hardware generated random number
And hash the random string using one of these h… Continue reading How long will it take to crack a hashed random string
Social Engineered, dedicated to the “Art of Human Hacking,” was gutted, with 55,121 users’ details leaked on the same day as the hack. Continue reading Social engineering forum hacked, user data dumped on rival site
A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web’s most popular content management systems are using obsolete algorithms to protect their users’ passwords. Continue reading Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly
Pen Test Partners has found some major security flaws in the Bluetooth Nokelock that consumers might like to know about. Continue reading Researchers uncover smart padlock’s dumb security