Re: Password List.txt
Rocki Stenger
I'm new at python, and I'm trying to do a simple Register & Login System with Text file. What I would like to do is:1.When app is launched ask for user Login or Register. (Done)2.If user wants to login, we launch the file reader and get the data of the list, from TXT file. (NOT DONE.)3. If user wants to register we launch the file writer, and write to the list in TXT file to add a user to the registered users list.
As for storing passwords in a .txt file is not a great idea, you should look into getting a database for example Google's Firebase and read up on the python package firebase which you can get from pip install firebase
If you omit the --format specifier, john obviously recognizes the format of the hash file correctly.
When you read the output of your john command, you see that the passphrase is not found within the words contained in 10-million-password-list-top-100000.txt.
Your challenge now is to find a wordlist suitable or big enough to actually contain the password.
@Replit staff: Could you kindly update on whats the status of your investigations? It should take less than 5 min to create a repl and validate the error (in addition to the public repl provided earlier).
I simply downloaded the common-passwords.txt file that Django uses (which contains all the code/text necessary to be functional), gzipped it, and moved it to the directory where it should be so Django can use it.
Now, you could be wondering why we need to use a Python repl to work with Django when there is a Django repl template that we can use. But the thing is this issue can also be replicated on the Django repl as well if, for instance, you try to install Wagtail (a Django-based CMS) on it.
To hopefully answer all of your questions in one go:
I was experimenting with the Django template vs the Python one. I found that because the Python template is using our new Nix Modules system, reverting it back to .replit and replit.nix control, it fixed the issue when installing and using Django.
You can fix the issue with existing Django Repls by copying over the .replit and replit.nix files from the Django template into those Repls. I have tested this on my end and have confirmed that it fixed the issue with the missing file.
I completely understand. I have confirmed with the team that this is an issue and will follow up once I have an update on the issue. To confirm, this is not intended, and I apologize for the issues you faced.
I found a txt file on my computer labeled "passwords.txt" It is a long file of seemingly random and popular terms and a lot of vulgar terms. None of it seems to be personal information, but I definitely did not make this document full of thousands of terms, which to me looks like a list of password guesses or something like that. Does anyone know what this could be or found the same document? I copied a few lines of this text below:
Yes, exactly! I just bought a Mac from Apple's Refurbished Store online. I was setting it up at home because, (as I was told) the Apple Store no longer does in-person computer set-up services due to Covid-19.
I found the "passwords" .txt file as well as other .txt files with random male names, female names, surnames, and apparently common terms mined from American television shows. It's quite disturbing and suspicious that it was located in the "Application Support" folder for Chrome.
I immediately called Apple Support to question why these files were downloaded to my new laptop (purchased from the Certified Refurbished Mac Store). They could not provide any explanation, so I became suspicious and returned the computer, believing my security and identity to have been compromised. They did ship a 'clean' replacement laptop, and I began setting it up from clean state... however, when I downloaded Chrome from Safari and installed it, the same offending .txt files reappeared again. It is unlikely this is a coincidence, to be replicated on two completely different/new devices. Now I am concerned that it is not just a random issue on one laptop out of a million. The files are located in the exact same path, and the folder labeled "1" contains the same 6 text files, including 'passwords':
I have discovered the exact same files today- on both my laptop and my desktop. In the hard drive-library-application support-google-chrome-ZxcvbnData-1 and then the male names, female names, surnames, passwords. I tried calling apple who referred me to Google and google 'very helpfully' referred me to a page explaining how to remove cookies, and malware... I removed the who chrome folder and thousand of files seems to have been removed with it. Most I'm sure were necessary for Chrome function but I will not be using chrome again. All files had been downloaded back in November 2020 without my knowledge.
I have found the same file, containing 25482 lines of text, most of them I never did or never would have written on any of my Apple devices, ever. I did not find any record matching any of my current or previous passwords. I would guess you're safe as long as this file doesn't contain anything that you're actually using as a passwords, and it's probably best to just delete this file. It's suspicious though.
I don't think this file was there before the Big Sur update, because after I had updated and tried opening Keychain after writing "pass" in Spotlight, this file showed up, not Keychain as my usual first suggestion.
Yeah I heard a lot about the passwords.txt just being something that chrome uses to prevent it users from making weak passwords or that the list is just compromised passwords so that the you do have a password in that list chrome can let you know. After finding passwords.txt I deleted it and then proceeding to reset my Mac. After downloading chrome, it came right back and it was in the application support files for google in the chrome folder. It really suspects I just deleted chrome to be safe.
So "Chrome can let you know" really? The most advanced software giant in the world needs to put a text file containing profanity onto user's personal computers for their own protection? ... really? I'm sorry, but that is outrageous.
I have just discovered this passwords.txt file as well and am somewhat relieved, although also more shocked in a different way, that it's not just my computer. I have a 2015 PowerBook Pro running 10.15.4 Catalina. I just installed Chrome in September because there was one site I was using that wouldn't open properly on Safari. I think I'll uninstall it now that it seems related to that. Creepy.
One remarkable feature of John is that it can autodetect the encryption for common formats. This will save you a lot of time in researching the hash formats and finding the correct tool to crack them.
A quick disclaimer before we get started: do not use this tool for nefarious purposes. This is meant to be an educational tutorial to help you protect yourself and your clients or team from password attacks. Use this information responsibly and safely!
The second step is to stop using the same passwords for multiple sites. If one site gets hacked, your password will be exposed to the internet. A hacker can then use the email/password combination to test your credentials across other sites. You can check if your password is on the internet here.
The final step would be to generate random passwords and use a password manager. There are a variety of options including the Chrome built-in Google password manager. If you use a strong password for each site you use, it becomes extremely hard to crack your password.
Hashcat is a great tool for cracking passwords offline using the power of your graphics processor unit computational power. It can process an astounding number of password guesses per second, cutting down the time it takes to crack password hashes.
In this article, we will show you how to use Hashcat. We will discuss password lists, and running Hashcat in different environments, be it on a local machine, a virtual environment, or even in the cloud.
Depending on the type of hash, the complexity of the password, and the GPU being used, Hashcat can test up to millions of password combinations per second during a brute force attack, greatly beyond the capacity of a CPU.
Simply put, a hash function takes input data and returns a fixed-length string through mathematical computations. Once the data has been hashed, there is no way to reverse the process and retrieve the original data from the hash.
Websites create a hash of the password as a measure of security to protect users' sensitive data. When a user logs in, the password entered is hashed, and if this hash matches the hash stored in the database, the user is logged in.
The rockyou.txt file comes from the over 32 million user credentials exposed due to a data breach in 2009 on the social media platform RockYou. These passwords were kept in plain text, not hashed or otherwise obfuscated.
Performance Overhead: Running Hashcat in a VM is slower than running it on native hardware, especially due to its GPU-intensive tasks, because of the additional layer of abstraction provided by the VM.
Hardware Access: While most VM solutions support passing through USB devices to the guest operating system, GPU passthrough (beneficial for a tool like Hashcat) can be complex and may only be supported on some systems or with some VM software.
The decision to run Hashcat directly on the host OS versus in a VM depends on your specific needs and resources. Running Hashcat natively on the host operating system like Windows has its own set of pros and cons.
Performance: Running Hashcat on the host OS performs better than running it inside a VM. This is because there are no additional layers of abstraction between the application and the hardware.
Resource Consumption: Hashcat is designed to use as much of your system's resources as possible to perform its tasks quickly. While running, your computer might be slow to respond to other tasks.
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