Questions tagged [cracking]

Activities to break into computer(s) or technology systems without authorized access.

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Is "Google Play In-app Billing API version is less than 3" an attack?

I've an android app in production phase with more than 1 million downloads The app is free to download but some features require the user to pay Monitoring the app throught crashlytics sometimes see the error: Non-fatal Exception:…
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generating palindromes with John the Ripper

How can I configure John the Ripper to generate only mangled (Jumbo) palindromes from a word-list to crack a password hash? (I've googled it but only found "how to avoid palindromes")
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Reading rainbow tables from freerainbowtables.com

I have downloaded Rainbow Tables from freerainbowtables.com. Its extension is .rti . I was wondering if there is a way to read this file as a text file or anyother file. I want to write a simple program to read this file and store its contents in a…
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How to strip method names and still have an usable dsym

I have a QT application with bugsplat integrated therefore I need the DSYM in case we have a crash, but I also want to make cracking more difficult, some of the first steps are striping the method names. I'm generating the DSYM with these lines:…
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Exploit a buffer overflow with canary protection

I'm trying to exploit this simple program for homework: #include #include #include #define BUFSIZE 1024 typedef struct { char flag_content[BUFSIZE]; char guess[47]; unsigned canary; char…
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Google Play Billing Library 1.0 (2017) - Is it easier to hack?

Up until now we were using the in app purchaces api using the IabHelper classes that Google was giving in the form of raw code so that we could "rewrite" it and make it difficult for a hacker to reverse engineer it, trace the code and remove it and…
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Can Forest crack public-key cryptography?

Can Rigetti Forest quantum computing be used to crack (in a reasonable amount of time) public-key cryptography. Ie, can you use it to hack Bitcoin & Ethereum? If so, write a solution in code using the Python library for Quil, called pyQuil.
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Bash script for reaver to unlock wps-locked status

First of all, sorry for my poor poor english. I'm trying to write a bash script in order to perform AP WPS cracking using reaver. The problem is that after trying some WPS-PINs, the AP lock the WPS so I reaver is not usefull. To solve this, I…
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How to create a brute-force password cracker for alphabetical and alphanumerical passwords?

I'm trying to create a brute force Python code for alphabetical and alphanumerical combinations and have it report the password and amount of time it took. For numerical combinations I made this: import datetime as dt Password4 = 123456 def…
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How to open locked app in design mode?

Our MS Access 2000 developer left the company a year ago. We need to open his app in design mode in order to make modifications. Double-clicking the .mdb file while holding the shift key doesn't work. When I do that the developer toolbar shows for a…
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Python SMTP not logging in

Before we get started, I have to say that I'm very new to Python. It would make sense if I did something stupidly wrong, but I think I would have figured that out by now. I'm 13, and this is my first language. I've followed Python Basics Youtube…
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Multiprocessing acting up in Python 3

I was messing around with a zip file cracker and decided to use the multiprocessing module to speed the process up. It was a complete pain since it was my first time using the module and I don't even fully understand it yet. However, I got it to…
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Hack attempt on Amazon EC2 (Using wget to upload file to server)

I was looking through my logs and I noticed a very weird line. [Fri Jun 26 21:21:36.420706 2015] [:error] [pid 21172] [client 58.213.123.107:56538] Target WSGI script not found or unable to stat: /opt/python/current/app/application.py, referer: ()…
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Block "cloner" servers rendering content from our server

I have a website of mine (freeofficefinder.com) that is being cloned (see here: thelawyerserviceratings.org) There are actually over 25 websites that are currently cloning our website. Obviously this is hurting our SEO ranking greatly due to…
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Python Cracking KeePass KDB Database file error

So i have forgotten my master password ~_~ i was storing all my passwords in a KeePass database file. Now i have found this article http://blog.q-protex.com/2010/03/14/keepass-self-bruteforce/ and installed the reqired version of python and…
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