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Exploring hacking tools, also known as security testing tools
Yeah, we all do it, right? We let our browser store our passwords for all those sites we visit every day. It’s easy, it’s convenient, and it’s really easy to hack. Starry shows us how to reveal these passwords, swipe them and use them in another browser. Plus: he demos what you can do about …
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Co-founder of School for Hackers Starry Sky gives us a video on hacking tools. This time he explores Netcraft, an intelligence-gathering tool for those of us who really just want to know a little bit more. Come on, just a little bit … š
This is post 1 of 17 in the series “[ Hacker Night School ]” There’s a form of hiding data that isn’t exactly encryption; it’s just simple encoding into another format that most people won’t be able to read. FTP passwords, for example, are encoded in FileZilla using Base 64 format. You can get fancy …
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Hackers are clever techies. The word “hacker” actually hasĀ nothing to do with crime: a brilliant engineer would hack out a smart solution to the problem at hand, and consider it a compliment to be called a hacker. There’s a whole culture built on this idea: seeĀ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture. We are a community dedicated to learning and teaching. …