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Hacking 101 ; Monday ; Period 2
"So, it seems I missed some craziness," Riley said once he'd gotten back. He'd listened to the radio podcasts and was pretty glad he'd decided to go to DC that particular weekend. "I hope everyone's feeling better and I'll try and keep things light today."
Class was still meeting in the computer lab and there weren't any disassembled computers to piece together. Today, they were actually going to be working on computers! Hurrah!
"While I was in DC, I built a website with some weak security," he explained. "The biggest thing you guys have to get at to find my data? A password. For personal passwords, people tend to go with something familiar to them as the meat of the password before they add in a few letters or numbers or something like that. For companies? They go with long strings of letters and numbers that mean absolutely nothing. In this case, you either go with the brute force attack where you can set your computer up to guess every possible combination of password or the dictionary attack which is exactly what it sounds like. The first step is basically figuring out what type of password I've used. For this lesson, I'll tell you that I've used an actual real word that can be found in a dictionary but there are letters and random characters included. On your computer, there are programs for setting up brute force attacks and there's also a way to start a dictionary attack. It won't always be this easy, though. You'll have to get your own programs if you're really gonna hack something."
Riley paused and nodded. "First one to crack the code will get the adulation of their peers. Good luck and let me know if you need any help."
Class was still meeting in the computer lab and there weren't any disassembled computers to piece together. Today, they were actually going to be working on computers! Hurrah!
"While I was in DC, I built a website with some weak security," he explained. "The biggest thing you guys have to get at to find my data? A password. For personal passwords, people tend to go with something familiar to them as the meat of the password before they add in a few letters or numbers or something like that. For companies? They go with long strings of letters and numbers that mean absolutely nothing. In this case, you either go with the brute force attack where you can set your computer up to guess every possible combination of password or the dictionary attack which is exactly what it sounds like. The first step is basically figuring out what type of password I've used. For this lesson, I'll tell you that I've used an actual real word that can be found in a dictionary but there are letters and random characters included. On your computer, there are programs for setting up brute force attacks and there's also a way to start a dictionary attack. It won't always be this easy, though. You'll have to get your own programs if you're really gonna hack something."
Riley paused and nodded. "First one to crack the code will get the adulation of their peers. Good luck and let me know if you need any help."
Sign In [HACK 101 07/14]
Lecture [HACK 101 07/14]
Class Activity: Password Cracking [HACK 101 07/14]
[The password is GenIU$1010]
Karolina [HACK 101 07/14]
Riley [HACK 101 07/14]
OOC [HACK 101 07/14]
Re: Sign In [HACK 101 07/14]
Re: Sign In [HACK 101 07/14]
Re: Lecture [HACK 101 07/14]
Today, however, her memory was tossing the most embarrassing parts of the weekend at her in hi-def which meant that most of Kathy's focus was on trying not to crawl under her desk and die.
Re: Sign In [HACK 101 07/14]
Re: Sign In [HACK 101 07/14]
Re: Class Activity: Password Cracking [HACK 101 07/14]
"See, this is why you lock people out after they get the password wrong too many times," he commented.