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pyth0n3 - Viewing /etc/shadow file ,understanding the structure

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:07:00 +0000

The Unix/Linux system store the password hashes in a file called /etc/shadow with access control that requires root privileges .This is the strategy used by modern Unix/Linux system .
So the structure will be :Username:password:lastchange:min:max:warn:inactive:expire:

Username -will stay for the name of the user

Salt - ...

pyth0n3 - Simple tutorial ,how to patch John The Riper for SHA hashes

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:36:00 +0000

So here i will describe how to apply the patch to JTR ,if you want to use this tool with SHA hashes .By default in Ubuntu 9.10 and other version you will see that the password are encrypted whith SHA algorithm.The password are stored in /etc/shadow .First thing it will need to download JTR from here http://www.openwall.com/john/...

sykadul's Blog - List of Famous Unsolved Codes and Ciphers

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:31:00 +0000

Beale Ciphers

Voynich Manuscript

Dorabella Cipher

Zodiac Killer ciphers

Kryptos

D'Agapeyeff

Linear A

The Phaistos Disk

Chaocipher

Chinese "Gold Bar" ciphers

RSA Challenges

Indus Script

Richard Feynman's Challenge Ciphers

Unsolved World War II Systems

Rongorongo Script of Easter Island...

Dr.White's Blog - Simple Mailer In Perl

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:27:00 +0000

Just Wanna Share With you Readers The Fact That a Mailer Is something very Useful And I wanna Share a Simple I Made With you...

Here Is The Code:

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Dr.White's Blog - Print "hello World";

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:45:00 +0000

Security & Hacking Are the 2 things I like Most In All the world And I'll Blog about Them, I Hope You Can Learn with me, I'll try To put Things you don't find easy, some tutorials & obviosly all Projects & Posts will be written to share them...

Well I'm Sorry about my English I am Latino =) so... Hope You Like My...

sykadul's Blog - Crack A Master Lock - Mathematically, No Shim

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:42:00 +0000

Just noticed this topic and decided to mirror it, here it goes:

Apparently it is possible to reduce 64,000 possible padlock combinations down to 100. From Mark Edward Campos, an incredibly clear How-To on cracking a master lock:

For an enlarged version, click here.

Looking for something a little more interactive? ...

BlogOfDamion - Reverting A Keylogger

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:43:00 +0000

Reverting Keyloggers

Tutorial by Damion774

If you have a keylogger on your computer, and you know the file, this process will easily give you the FTP website they are using so you can get the logs for the files, and if they use the same keyloggers on other computers, you'll get the logs for that to.

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Prophet-Z's Blog - How To "hack" Msn Accounts + Related Questions

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:09:00 +0000

I have been seeing a lot of topics lately about users wanting to know how to hack into msn messenger accounts or steal password to msn and so on. I thought I would clear up a few things so that you hopefully will get your questions answered.

Firstly. If you don't have time to learn the background information needed or you simple can't be...

Villag3 Idi07's Blog - First Entry

Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:04:00 +0000

Okay, another day, another registration. I hope this is gonna be good.

Anyway, I haven't seen any songs from HIM's new album and I thought I should share Heartkiller.mp3 with you, if you like. So HIM fans, go ahead and tell me, I haven't uploaded it yet but I will.

Prophet-Z's Blog - Copy Clipboard "hack"

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:05:00 +0000

So I just fiddled around with the clipboard and found this piece of source that will copy what you have in your clipboard (atleast if you use Internet Explorer) and display it.

Copy the text and paste it into a notepad document.
Change the extension from .txt to .html and enjoy ...