This is a list of data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continually. Breaches of large organizations where the number of records is still unknown are also listed. In addition, the various methods used in the breaches are listed, with hacking being the most common.
In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. This also includes some junk because hackers being hackers, they don't always neatly format their data dumps into an easily consumable fashion. (I found a combination of different delimiter types including colons, semicolons, spaces and indeed a combination of different file types such as delimited text files, files containing SQL statements and other compressed archives.)
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Last week, multiple people reached out and directed me to a large collection of files on the popular cloud service, MEGA (the data has since been removed from the service). The collection totalled over 12,000 separate files and more than 87GB of data. One of my contacts pointed me to a popular hacking forum where the data was being socialised, complete with the following image:
Q. Is there a list of which sites are included in this breach?I've reproduced a list that was published to the hacking forum I mentioned and that contains 2,890 file names. This is not necessarily complete (nor can I easily verify it), but it may help some people understand the origin of their data a little better.
Password cracking is a mechanism that is used in most of the parts of hacking. Exploitation uses it to exploit the applications by cracking their administrator or other account passwords, Information Gathering uses it when we have to get the social media or other accounts of the C.E.O. or other employees of the target organization, Wifi Hacking uses it when we have to crack the hash from the captured wifi password hash file, etc.
So to be a good Ethical hacker one must be aware of password cracking techniques. Though it is easy to crack passwords by just using guessing techniques, it is very time consuming and less efficient so in order to automate the task, we have a lot of tools. When it comes to tools Kali Linux is the Operating System that stands first, So here we have a list of tools in Kali Linux that may be used for Password Cracking.
In order to hack a password, we have to try a lot of passwords to get the right one. When an attacker uses thousands or millions of words or character combinations to crack a password there is no surety that any one of those millions of combinations will work or not. This collection of a different combination of characters is called a wordlist. And in order to crack a password or a hash, we need to have a good wordlist which could break the password. So to do so we have a tool in Kali Linux called crunch.
The hard levels of Hackvent conitnued with more web hacking, reverse engineering, crypto, and an esoteric programming language. In the reversing challenges, there was not only an iPhone debian package, but also a PS4 update file.
Now, we would have a demonstration of the tools that have been developed specifically to simulate attacks simply without getting overloaded by payloads and without worrying about fuzzing templates. There are simple tools that can be run and used to check to see if we have enough security for our API. It will also check for the vulnerability of a system to particle attacks. Next we will talk about how to hack API with GoTestWAF.
Password cracking is when a hacker uncovers plaintext passwords or unscrambles hashed passwords stored in a computer system. Password cracking tools leverage computing power to help a hacker discover passwords through trial and error and specific password cracking algorithms.
If a hacker discovers your password, they can steal your identity, steal all your other passwords, and lock you out of all your accounts. They can also set up phishing attacks to trick you into giving up more sensitive data, install spyware on your devices, or sell your data to data brokers.
As technology has advanced, guessing passwords has become easier for hackers. While some of the best password managers can defend against password cracking tools, learning about common password cracking techniques is a great way to swing the odds in your favor.
Sometimes all a hacker has to do is wait for a data breach to leak millions of passwords and private details. Hackers often share and trade sensitive data they find, so it pays to have privacy software like Avast BreachGuard that helps prevent companies from selling your personal info, protects you from social media snoops, and scans the web in case your sensitive details are out there.
A brute force attack is when hackers use computer programs to crack a password through countless cycles of trial and error. A reverse brute force attack attempts to crack a username through the same method. Brute force attacks are simple yet effective.
A mask attack reduces the workload of a brute force attack by including part of the password a hacker already knows in the attack. If a hacker knows your password has 10 characters, for example, they can filter the attack for passwords of only that length.
Mask attacks can filter by specific words, numbers within a certain range, special characters the user prefers, or any other password characteristics the hacker is confident about. If any of your data is leaked, it makes you more vulnerable to a full-on breach.
Social engineering is a technique where criminals manipulate people into giving up compromising information. In the context of hacking, social engineering a password is when hackers trick someone into divulging their password details, such as by pretending to be tech support.
Social engineering takes many forms, especially in the age of social media. Ever come across a quirky social media quiz asking you to enter your first pet and street to create a superhero name? A hacker may be trying to social engineer the answers to your password security questions.
Spidering is when hackers crawl a company's social media accounts, marketing campaigns, or other corporate material to gather a word list for a brute force or dictionary attack. Spidering can become social engineering when hackers infiltrate businesses for physical handbooks and training manuals full of keywords.
Offline cracking is when hackers transfer hashed passwords offline to crack them more safely and efficiently. Online attacks are vulnerable to discovery, can trigger a lockout after too many attempts, and are hampered by a network's speed. With offline cracking, a hacker is invisible, can attempt infinite logins, and is limited only by their own computer power.
Hashed passwords can be taken directly from a database by tried-and-true hacker techniques such as SQL injection. If a hacker gains administrator privileges, it's game over for all the passwords on the admin's system. Learning how to password-protect files and folders can save admins from a disastrous password breach. 2ff7e9595c
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