Blog Posts Tagged with "Rainbow Tables"
Password Protection Pointers
June 12, 2012 Added by:Jayson Wylie
The best password is the one that only you know. Even better one is one that nobody else can find out. Crackers are getting away from massive rainbow tables and moving on to graphics processors for quick password compromise. It is possible to categorize your passwords to define the sensitivity of their purpose....
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Top Ten Password Cracking Methods
December 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"A rainbow table is a list of pre-computed hashes - the numerical value of an encrypted password, used by most systems today - and that’s the hashes of all possible password combinations for any given hashing algorithm mind..."
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Password Hash: It's Okay to Inhale...
July 18, 2011 Added by:Vulcan Mindm3ld
The recent IRC Federal and HBGary SQL injection vulnerabilities allowed attackers access to a username/password table stored in the database. IRC Federal's “experts” simply stored unencrypted passwords while HBGary's “expert” third-party developers implemented unsalted, non-iterated MD5...
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Hacking the WPA Airwaves
May 16, 2011 Added by:Mark Bennett
Many people believe that their wireless is secure because they are using WPA. Well we did a test recently and were able to basically password guess our way with a dictionary attack using either a straight dictionary or a rainbow table. Using linux this is how it is done...
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