Filed under: Passwords
Hey all,
Some of you may have heard what I did this month. It turns out, depending on who you listen to, that I'm either an evil "Facebook hacker" or just some mischievous individual doing "unsettling" research. But, one way or the other, a huge number of people have read or heard this story, and that's [...]
Filed under: Hacking, Passwords
First and foremost: if you want to cut to the chase, just download the torrent. If you want the full story, please read on....
Background
Way back when I worked at Symantec, my friend Nick wrote a blog that caused a little bit of trouble for us: Attack of the Facebook Snatchers. I was blog editor at [...]
Filed under: Passwords
This is going to be a fun post that's related to some of my password work. Some of the text may not be PG13, so parental discretion is advised.
As most of you know, I've been collecting password lists. In addition to normal password lists that are useful in bruteforcing, I have a (so far) [...]
Yes, I'm still working on making the ultimate password list. And I don't mean the 16gb one I made by taking pretty much every word or word-looking string on the Internet when I was a kid; that was called ultimater dictionary. No; I mean one that is streamlined, sorted, and will make Nmap the bruteforce [...]
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Hey everybody!
As you probably know, I've been working hard on generating and evaluating passwords. My last post was all about Rockyou.com's passwords; next post will (probably) be about different groups of passwords from my just updated password dictionaries page. This will be a little different, though.