Software Cracking Sites
Giselda Sasao
I had never used an online tool for password cracking before. I knew they were out there, but, there are literally hundreds of billions of passwords with their associating hashes, no database can store them all, this is seemed to be an impossible task, but I set out finding some resources to be able to work through the category.
Crackstation has been my favorite online tool since I discovered it in 2018. It contains numerous wordlists, including the most common rockyou, and 219 additional gigabytes of passwords. The dictionary is enormous! Crackstation is usually where I begin, as it will tell you the wordlist it pulled from, and that allows me to work further down that same list using another tool or website.
Md5decrypt is a website that is great for various password hashes as well as various encryption types. I have used this website for Md5, NTLM (lovely old Windows passwords), and a few of their encryption tools for both the NCL games and a few other CTFs. While they do not provide the name of the wordlist, I normally use that as a starting point to begin to research where that password is found.
onlinehashcrack.com was a bit of an unexpected gem. I have found many paid password tools, which I usually immediately write off and continue down the list, but, I noticed they had a free option, where, if the password was already in the database (which meant it was found in a more common wordlist) it was free! I immediately tried a few well known password hashes, such as d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e, which should always return for any tool, as that is the MD5 hash of a null string. Onlinehashcrack contains many additional tools as well, including some for basic zip file and encrypted word document cracking. This website does contain paid options as well, and they are fairly pricey, so I normally use this as a last resort.
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Codecademy allows people to learn how to code. With a free subscription you can learn basic HTML, Javascript, Python, SQL, and other languages of code. I took a little time to go through and complete the course Introduction to HTML. Throughout the course, I learned how to create a website using HTML. Codecademy taught me how to insert images, videos, create lists, and much more.
Here, Codecademy taught me how to insert an image into the website that is being built. This is important because all websites need some quality images in order to make them interesting and engaging!
In this lesson of Codecademy, I learned how to insert a video. Inserting video allows for consumers to really see exactly what you may be selling. Videos are an important part of a company's website. For example, on REI's website, they have product tutorials and reviews that are video's so that you can see exactly what you're getting and the benefit from it.
In this lesson, I learned how to create a form. This is vital to a company because it allows for them to collect information from consumers. The form allows for the members to input their information into the form so that they can access their account. All businesses need this especially if they have a loyalty program or something like that.
Further and more toward the end of the lesson, I learned how to make the code easier to understand. By changing some of the tags and headlines, it allows for people to better understand just what you are trying to do with your website and what action needs to be taken next to move forward with the creation of the site.
The functional and easy-to-use nature of Squarespace as shown in the photo above, allows you to see the changes as you are making them and it also does not require coding. By simply selecting exactly what you want, it allows for websites to be made fast and easy.
WordPress is another platform to create a website/blog. Again on this platform I made a website for myself to compare the user interface between WordPress and Squarespace. The mission of WordPress is WordPress is "software designed for everyone, emphasizing accessibility, performance, security, and ease of use." I believe that WordPress is much more geared toward large businesses because there is the ability to code in HTML on it as well as really customize your website from a blank page. It also is geared to make apps and other things besides websites.
I personally found it more difficult to use WordPress, especially when trying to use HTML in it. After many minutes of trying, I finally used the code in the first photo to insert the photo of myself in the second photo.
All three are useful tools for digital marketers. These are all useful because as a digital marketer, having a good understanding of web development and coding comes in handy for optimizing user experience with your website, content included on the website, and SEO. If you are a small business owner, Squarespace would be a great tool for you to use because it is easy to create very nice and easy to manage pages. There are also built in tools in Squarespace that help to optimize SEO and other digital marketing tools that you may want to use so that your website is running at peak performance. WordPress would be good to use as a digital marketer because it has a lot of tools that are available to you. It is very geared toward people that have more background knowledge on web development but for digital marketing it could be used as a tool to create a website that people find easy to interact with and it may be used to convert more users if used correctly. Codecademy provides a user-friendly platform to acquire these skills at no cost or a small fee to dive deeper into the skills of each specific coding language.
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%website_1% is ranked number 1 as the most popular website in the %category% category in %month_year%. The average amount of time that users spend on the website is %website_1_duration% minutes, and they see, on average, %website_1_pages_per_visit% pages per visit. Pages per visit is a popular engagement metric that is calculated by dividing the total number of website views by the total number of visitors. The bounce rate for %website_1% is %website_1_bounce%, meaning that %website_1_bounce% of visitors leave the website after viewing just one page.
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As reported by Ars Technica, cybersecurity researcher Denis Sinegubko has been monitoring ongoing website hacking activities for a long time. Now, he has identified a major pivot from crypto wallet drainers to brute-force password-cracking attacks on WordPress sites. Why is this happening, what does it mean, and what can you, as an end user, do? We'll dive into all of the need-to-know information right away below.
First, let's talk "Why." Earlier in February, Sinegubko, writing for Sucuri's blog, discussed an increase in "web3 crypto malware," particularly malware used to inject crypto drainers into existing sites or use phishing sites for the same purpose.
These new attacks function differently, and are instead utilizing visitors' PCs for en masse password cracking attempts. The likely reason for this divergence in approach is because it will take a very long time for the active "crypto drainers" to actually turn a profit, if they even manage to do so before getting blocked.
As Sinegubko says, "This is how thousands of visitors across hundreds of different websites unknowingly and simultaneously try to bruteforce thousands of other third-party WordPress sites. And since the requests come from the browsers of real visitors, you can imagine this is a challenge to filter and block such requests."
Any infected WordPress site can have its visiting users (or their browsers) put to automated work on guessing author or admin passwords for other WordPress sites. Attackers are estimated to be guessing, with over 41,800 passwords for each impacted site. However, only one of the thousands of sites checked in the original Securi blog post was compromised with this method.
You don't need to do too much as an end user to avoid this. Keep your passwords secure, and if you don't trust the website you're visiting, NoScript can be an essential solution to prevent these types of exploits. AdBlockers may or may not do the job as well, but NoScript is as harsh as the solutions get.
For WordPress admins and those concerned about this, verify that none of your passwords, especially system-critical passwords, are default or lazily set in any way. Proper password practice and firewalling your WordPress admin page and "xmlrpc.php" file are the recommended solutions for WP site owners who want to get ahead of this.
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