How to crack a pin number by generating a wordlist with all possible numbers.

Cracking a pin number is very easy when you are using Linux. There are utilities to generate a wordlist and then this may be used to crack the pin number hash. This is how to generate a wordlist with all possible number combinations using the numbers 249. jason@jason-desktop:~$ crunch 16 16 249 -o pin.lst Crunch … Read more

Cracking a pin number hash with hashcat on Debian Linux.

I recently needed to crack a pin number hash that was four digits and used the numbers 2490. This sounds easy, but hard until you realise that it is a relatively simple PIN. I used the command below to generate a 60 Gigabyte wordlist, containing all possible combinations of the numbers in the PIN. crunch … Read more

Linux Mint security breach cause for much discussion.

The recent security breach on the Linux Mint website shows that updating a WordPress website regularly is very important. This breach allowed malicious attackers to compromise the Mint website and change download links to point to Linux Mint ISO images that contained extra files. Therefore, the people using these ISO`s would have been using a … Read more