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In cryptanalysis and computer security, password cracking is the process of guessing passwords [ 1] protecting a computer system. A common approach ( brute-force attack) is to repeatedly try guesses for the password and to check them against an available cryptographic hash of the password. [ 2] Another type of approach is password spraying ...
List of warez groups. Warez groups are teams of individuals who have participated in the organized unauthorized publication of films, music, or other media, as well as those who can reverse engineer and crack the digital rights management ( DRM) measures applied to commercial software. This is a list of groups, both web -based and warez scene ...
Warez scene. The Warez scene, often referred to as The Scene, [ 1] is a worldwide, underground, organized network of pirate groups specializing in obtaining and illegally releasing digital media for free before their official sale date. [ 2] The Scene distributes all forms of digital media, including computer games, movies, TV shows, music, and ...
FitGirl Repacks is a website distributing pirated video games. FitGirl Repacks is known for "repacking" games – compressing them significantly so they can be downloaded and shared more efficiently. [ 2][ 3] TorrentFreak listed FitGirl Repacks at sixth in 2021 [ 4] and at ninth in 2020's Top 10 Most Popular Torrent Sites lists.
Software cracking (known as "breaking" mostly in the 1980s [ 1]) is an act of removing copy protection from a software. [ 2] Copy protection can be removed by applying a specific crack. A crack can mean any tool that enables breaking software protection, a stolen product key, or guessed password. Cracking software generally involves ...
John the Ripper. John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. [ 3] Originally developed for the Unix operating system, it can run on fifteen different platforms (eleven of which are architecture-specific versions of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS ). It is among the most frequently used password testing and breaking programs ...
Fravia. Francesco Vianello (30 August 1952 – 3 May 2009), better known by his nickname Fravia (sometimes +Fravia or Fravia+ ), was a software reverse engineer, [ 1][ 2][ 3] who maintained a web archive of reverse engineering techniques and papers. [ 4][ 5] He also worked on steganography. [ 6] He taught on subjects such as data mining ...
International Network of Crackers. International Network of Crackers ( INC) was one of the premier cracking /releasing warez groups for the IBM PC during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The formation of INC was the result of the merger of several cracking groups, including Union, based out of Texas, and the Miami Cracking Machine ( MCM ), based ...