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  2. Hydra (software) - Wikipedia

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    Hydra works by using different approaches, such as brute-force attacks and dictionary attacks, in order to guess the right username and password combination. Hydra is commonly used by penetration testers together with a set of programmes like crunch, [ 3 ] cupp [ 4 ] etc, which are used to generate wordlists based on user-defined patterns.

  3. Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism - Wikipedia

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    The client derives a key, or salted password, from the password, a salt, and a number of computational iterations as follows: SaltedPassword = H(password, salt, iteration-count) = PBKDF2(HMAC, password, salt, iteration-count, output length of H).

  4. Bypass Paywalls Clean - Wikipedia

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    Bypass Paywalls Clean (BPC) is a free and open-source web browser extension that circumvents paywalls. Developed by magnolia1234, the extension uses techniques such as clearing cookies and showing content from web archives .

  5. Session hijacking - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, session hijacking, sometimes also known as cookie hijacking, is the exploitation of a valid computer session—sometimes also called a session key—to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. In particular, it is used to refer to the theft of a magic cookie used to authenticate a user to a ...

  6. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password (due to the fact that installing an entirely new password would involve System Administration privileges), to gain unauthorized access to a system, or to act as a preventive measure whereby system administrators check for easily crackable passwords. On a file ...

  7. Course Hero buys Symbolab in a rare edtech acquisition

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    The 9-person Symbolab team, based in Tel Aviv, will join Course Hero . The platforms will live under independent branding for the near future, according to Andrew Grauer, CEO of Course Hero.

  8. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account

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    Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated. 5. Check to make sure your recovery options are up-to-date. 6. Consider enabling two-step verification to add an extra layer of security to your account.

  9. Alexandra Elbakyan - Wikipedia

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    She studied the possibility of using brainwaves measured using electroencephalography (EEG) for authentication instead of using a password. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 21 ] While working on her thesis, Elbakyan discovered the paywall problem with accessing journal articles, as her university did not have access to many publications related to her work.