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Written by C0B01
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Tuesday, 27 May 2008 |
When writing about social engineering it’s probably appropriate to start with a quote from the most famous of social engineers; “Hackers are going to go after the weakest link in the security chain, which is always the people. You can have the best security in the world, but if I can convince one person in the company to give me sensitive information, your security budget has been wasted.” - Kevin Mitnick (2007).
Social engineering is the named coined to the approach of manipulating a social situation in order to gain information on a specific target which is done on a covert level (i.e. the target does not know the real reasons for the request of the information). This information is then used to gain further sensitive information.
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Forget your password? Be google! |
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Written by Cenobyte
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Tuesday, 12 July 2005 |
For more and more websites you need to register or pay to have full access. The odd thing is that Google has the complete and full index of the website. So what's going on here? Why must regular users pay or register to have access when the google search engine bot has full access?. The reason is simple; every site wants to use the benefits of the wonderful world of Google, for webmasters free advertising is always welcome. But there is a simple way to be the Google (search)Bot. In this little article i will try to explain it.
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Written by Siim Pader
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Thursday, 26 May 2005 |
This is a short story about using a couple of computers, some interesting tools, an operating system and a bit of thinking to solve a not-entirely-artificial problem of getting wireless internet access where measureas are in place to stop it. Both the technical side as well as some of the reasoning behind the actions are explained.
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Password Cracking and Time-Memory Trade Off |
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Written by Jason R. Davis
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Saturday, 19 March 2005 |
Every time I go on line, I usually am up to no good. My intentions are often never hostile, but I do take part in the shady business of password cracking. Meaning I actively use unorthodox methodology, that I know for a fact the FBI frowns down upon, to obtain hashes. Once obtained I usually spend a few hours cracking these hashes via good old fashion bruteforcing. Now, bruteforcing is the most reliable method of password cracking in existence today. Theoretically, there is no password you cannot break, but the catch to all this, is time. You can spend 5 seconds or 10,000 years bruteforcing a password depending on it's weaknesses or strengths in this reference. The driving force behind bruteforcing is the ability to crack short passwords in minutes or hours instead of years. The other wonderful thing about bruteforcing is the dictionary aspect. If a password, 10 characters long, it will take quite a while I'm not going to compute the time to crack, except if it's a dictionary word. I can simply run a word list through my bruteforcing utility and for lack of a better word, shazam, I break the password.
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