Lost+Found: Twitter password cracking and GPL malware

Source: H Security - Posted by Anthony Pell

Too short for news, too good to lose; Lost+Found is a round up of useful security news. Today: Password cracking with Twitter, GPL Malware and are you ready for the Cyber Exploitation Corps? Twitter turns out to be a remarkably rich source of word lists as Joshua Dustin demonstrates. He used a simple Twitter search and some keywords about his target to generate a 4,400 word list which yielded 1,978 passwords; he used John The Ripper and as a target the MilitarySingles.com MD5 password hashes.

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