Hashcat is an important tool to have in your tool belt (on your computer at least ^^). I already wrote several tutorials on how to use Hashcat, but today we’ll stay focus on the installation, especially on a Linux distribution like Ubuntu. The easiest way to install Hashcat on Ubuntu is to use the package…
User credential (which refers to username and password combinations used for accessing online accounts) are very sensitive data sets that must necessarily be protected. Attack to such data sets lead to the financial ruin, sabotage or exposure of confidential materials belonging to individuals and financial and integrity ruin for organizations. There has been appreciable development…
Most of the time, the passwords you use on your favorites websites are not stored in plain text. They are first hashed for security reasons. But if someone gets access to the database with all logins and passwords, can the passwords be decrypted? That’s what’s we’ll talk about in this article. As a general rule,…
As you may already know, most passwords are stored hashed by the developers of your favorites websites. It means they don’t keep the password you chose in a plain text form, they convert it into another value, a representation of this password. But in the process, can two passwords have the same hash representation? That’s…
On each website where you enter your password, the website owner has to keep it in a way or another so that it can check your identity the next time you log in. Do you wonder how they memorize your password? Is it safe? I’ll answer your questions in this article. Developers have several methods…
It is a common thing to hear people complain of fraudsters hacking their accounts. One wonders how possible this is, since most people never reveal their passwords. For many, such acts lead to losing their funds, while others get locked out from their social media handles. But how do passwords get hacked in the first…
The MD5 algorithm is a one-way hash function, it’s not reversible, so there is no way to decrypt a MD5 hash “automatically”. However, current technologies allow us to use different strategies to crack MD5 hashes and find the original word. Using a rainbow table is one of them, and that’s what I’ll introduce in this…
MD5 is a cryptographic hash function, that has many advantages like the speed to generate them and the almost irreversible algorithm. These have leaded the MD5 algorithm to be widely used in the past, but where is this function still used nowadays? The most common application of the MD5 algorithm is now to check files…
Many legends are discussed about the MD5 algorithm, but it’s time to break the myths and talk about real facts. Is the MD5 algorithm still safe to store passwords? That’s what we’ll see in this article. The MD5 algorithm is no longer considered safe to store passwords, as it’s coming more and more easy to…
MD5 is a hashing function that is often used to check if a file transfer is complete and the file has not been corrupted during it. On each system there are different tools you can use to a file checksum, and in this article we’ll see how to do this on Windows. On Windows 10,…