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Contents • • • • • Password dictionaries These are dictionaries that come with tools/worms/etc, designed for cracking passwords. As far as I know, I'm not breaking any licensing agreements by mirroring them with credit; if you don't want me to host one of these files, let me know and I'll remove it. Name Compressed Uncompressed Notes (10,934 bytes) n/a Simple, extremely good, designed to be modified (1,069,968 bytes) n/a Fairly comprehensive, not ordered Conficker worm (1411 bytes) n/a Used by conficker worm to spread -- low quality (1868 bytes) n/a (1509 bytes) n/a Leaked passwords Passwords that were leaked or stolen from sites. I'm hosting them because it seems like nobody else does (hopefully it isn't because hosting them is illegal:)). Naturally, I'm not the one who stole these; I simply found them online, removed any names/email addresses/etc (I don't see any reason to supply usernames -- if you do have a good reason, email me (ron-at-skullsecurity.net) and I'll see if I have them. The best use of these is to generate or test password lists. Note: The dates are approximate. Unch na 6p3s.

Cracking windows passwords is no more difficult than any other set of passwords that need to be cracked via brute force/rainbow table lookup -- it's all about getting your hands on the right files to begin with. Note that Vista and Windows 7 are the same in terms of how the passwords are stored. Sledki zefirki dlya vzroslih opisanie. XP is different.

You'll need to appropriate hash tables when cracking using Ophcrack-- you can't use XP hashes to crack Vista/7 and vice versa. I actually have a fairly legit reason for this, other than pure curiosity: the professors and lecturers who have Win 7 at this Uni aren't given administrator access, so that they need to make an appointment with IT staff everytime they want to install or upgrade something. In my opinion, that's taking things way, way too far, especially in light of OSX user and Linux users don't face the same restrictions (I requested my computer to be delivered blank, so not even the IT staff can gain access without physically accessing my hdd). I've also twice been in situations where a lab computer was set up by a PhD student who had since left, but without telling anyone the BIOS password in one case (remove CMOS battery, drain the power by shorting) and NT 4 password in another case (boot using linux, replace the screensaver file with cmd, boot, then wait and you've got admin access). Adding a few more techniques to your arsenal makes you a more well rounded human being. Plus you might gain a bit more respect from the students.

Windows files that you need You'll need to copy two files from your Windows harddrive (most likely o C: ). Since you can't access those files from within windows, the easiest way to do that is to make a bootable USB with linux on it, boot, then mount the windows partition and copy the files. It does require that you know how to mount devices from the command line in linux (hint: read up on ) but it's really quite easy.