As you surely know, things blew up recently at Toorcon 12 with the release of the much talked about Firefox plugin called Firesheep. There were various discussions about how to mitigate against it like using Firefox plug-ins to force SSL connections (where available). Microsoft also tried to secure Hotmail with SSL but kinda b0rked that […]
Archives for 2010
SHA-1 Password Hashes Cracked Using Amazon EC2 GPU Cloud
It’s not the first time someone has pulled this off, back in November 2009 we wrote about Using Cloud Computing To Crack Passwords – Amazon’s EC2. Add that with a story way back from 2007 – Graphics Cards – The Next Big Thing for Password Cracking? – and you’ve got yourself an interesting combo with […]
CUDA-Multiforcer – GPU Powered High Performance Multihash Brute Forcer
The Cryptohaze Multiforcer is a high performance multihash brute forcer with support for per-position character sets, and very good performance scaling when dealing with large hash lists. As an example, on a list of 10 hashes, the Cryptohaze Multiforcer achieves 390M steps per second on a GTX260/[email protected] card. On a list of 1.4 million hashes […]
European Banks Seeing New Wave Of ATM Skimming
ATM hacking and skimming were often in the news a few years back, but since the banks ramped up the security on ATM machines – including anti-skimming devices – ATM fraud activities seemed to drop off. Remember the Pro ATM Hacker ‘Chao’ Gives Out ATM Hacking Tips and a bunch of people getting busted not […]
Crunch – Password Cracking Wordlist Generator
Crunch is a wordlist generator where you can specify a standard character set or a character set you specify. crunch can generate all possible combinations and permutations. Some other options are: The Associative Word List Generator (AWLG) – Wordlists for Password Cracking CeWL – Custom Word List Generator Tool for Password Cracking RSMangler – Keyword […]