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  2. 2011 PlayStation Network outage - Wikipedia

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    The 2011 PlayStation Network outage (sometimes referred to as the PSN Hack) was the result of an "external intrusion" on Sony 's PlayStation Network and Qriocity services, in which personal details from approximately 77 million accounts were compromised and prevented users of PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable consoles from accessing the ...

  3. 2014 Sony Pictures hack - Wikipedia

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    The headquarters of Sony Pictures in Culver City, California, United States. On November 24, 2014, a hacker group identifying itself as "Guardians of Peace" leaked a release of confidential data from the film studio Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). The data included personal information about Sony Pictures employees and their families, emails ...

  4. Sony Pictures hack: the whole story - Engadget

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    As far as Sony Pictures is concerned, the problems began on November 24th, when various reports pointed to a high-profile, studio-wide cyberattack at the hands of a group calling itself "#GOP ...

  5. Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal - Wikipedia

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    The two pieces of copy-protection software at issue in the 2005–2007 scandal were included on over 22 million CDs [ 7] marketed by Sony BMG, the record company formed by the 2004 merger of Sony and BMG's recorded music divisions. About two million of those CDs, [ 7] spanning 52 titles, contained First 4 Internet (F4I)'s Extended Copy ...

  6. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  7. Consensual phishing: How to crack your half-forgotten crypto ...

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    If he's successful, the client pays him. In Ethereum, of course. Sometimes, however, Dougherty cuts a project off after a few months, before finding the proper password, and he and the client go ...

  8. Ophcrack - Wikipedia

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    Ophcrack is a free open-source (GPL licensed) program that cracks Windows log-in passwords by using LM hashes through rainbow tables.The program includes the ability to import the hashes from a variety of formats, including dumping directly from the SAM files of Windows, and can be run via the command line or using the program’s GUI (Graphical user interface).

  9. Cain and Abel (software) - Wikipedia

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    Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) was a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows. It could recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. [ 1] Cryptanalysis attacks were done via ...