Seclist Generator, Random Stuff, and More

- this is seclist generator. It generates seclists for use by high speed password cracking sofware based on a dump of files. Download it here:

seclist_generator-1.01.zip

- description is as follows:

# I just wanted to see what certain seclist generation tools were

# like. These tools basically take a list of words and generate various

# permutations from them for use by high speed password cracking

# software. 

# 

# It's obvious that if you were to run these style of seclists against

# systems they would work but they would be really slow and impracticle. 

# I checked the try rate against a test router (D-Link DSL-502T) that

# was being thrown out and ended up with ~800.00 tries/min. Obviously,

# in the modern age of rich websites this activity may actually be drowned

# out in high traffic networks.

# https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.google.com/XPoWxKQE

# https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.ibm.com/IwoT0RoF

# https://gtmetrix.com/reports/www.redhat.com/aeoyoLFm

#

# The relative slowness explains why most botnets and automated hacking

# systems brute force a tiny fraction of user credentials. This method

# is highly impracticle but useful to know if your users have been lazy

# with password complexity and have used variations of words rather then

# genuinely random strings. Relatively useless against well guarded

# networks with watchful staff. That said, it would be interesting to

# how well such activity gets picked up by logging on your current

# network.

#  253823 ciml-v0_99-all.john

#   20553 ciml-v0_99-all.pdf

#   15471 ciml-v0_99-all.txt

#    5134 ciml-v0_99-all.wordlist

#

# As this is the very first version of the program it may be VERY buggy). 

# Please test prior to deployment in a production environment.

#

- this method is also rediculously impracticable against core systems with proper logging. It would create an astounding number of error messages in log files and only the most lazy of network and system administrators would not notice this kind of activity? The most likely scenario under which I would see this being used is if you locked yourself out of your own system and had no physical access (having physical access implies you can use rainbow tables to find your way back in)?
legal kali linux
Yes it is 100% legal to use Kali Linux. Kali Linux is a operating system developed in collaboration with open source penetration testing software. It is operating system dedicated to Ethical Hacking. It is used by many professional in the field of cyber security.
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-legal-to-use-Kali-Linux
https://steemit.com/hacking/@ali1357/what-is-kali-linux-legal-or-illegal-c65fa8f1b038f
https://www.reddit.com/r/HowToHack/comments/2u8bxc/is_there_a_legal_way_to_practice_kali_linux_tools/
https://www.vulnhub.com/
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/securitypenetration-testing-research.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/web-server-global-sampling.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/dnsamazon-s3github-enumeration-pack.html

generate wordlist from book

https://chryzsh.gitbooks.io/pentestbook/generate_custom_wordlist.html

https://chryzsh.gitbooks.io/pentestbook/

create wordlist from textfile

https://null-byte.wonderhowto.com/how-to/create-custom-wordlists-for-password-cracking-using-mentalist-0183992/

http://stuffjasondoes.com/2018/07/18/creating-custom-wordlists-for-targeted-attacks-with-cewl/

https://www.passcape.com/windows_password_recovery_wordlist_create

https://www.smeegesec.com/2014/01/smeegescrape-text-scraper-and-custom.html

tiny web server bash

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/32182/simple-command-line-http-server

https://github.com/benrady/shinatra
- if a wordlist is not available you may have to mine websites for relevant words
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/12/news-vix-script-jim-simonsed-thorp.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/comparing-icos-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/02/cryptocurrency-market-manipulation.html
http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/03/psychological-warfaremind-control-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/09/big-data-and-social-trading-investments.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/social-media-bot-coding-notes-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/comparing-icos-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/07/online-marketing-and-sales-notes-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/07/neuroscience-in-psyops-world-order.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/05/more-psyops-social-systems-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/more-psyops-random-thoughts-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/04/hybrid-warfare-more-psyops-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2016/03/psychological-warfaremind-control-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2015/12/understanding-propaganda-us-anti-war.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/03/whitepaper-examine-script-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-sea-of-fakery-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/news-feed-bias-checker-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/04/news-bias-checker-2-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2017/05/news-homepage-bias-check-random-stuff.html
cryptocurrency word list
bitcoin word list
cryptocurrency seclist
bitcoin seclist
cryptocurrency glossary
bitcoin glossary
cryptocurrency dictionary
https://blockspot.io/crypto-dictionary/
dictionary
synonyms
associated domains/words such as from finance
finance glossary
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-term-dictionary-4769738
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/angelinvestor.asp
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bayes-theorem.asp
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/z/zzzzbest.asp
get most popular words from file bash linux
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/41479/find-n-most-frequent-words-in-a-file
https://superuser.com/questions/661661/listing-all-words-in-a-text-file-and-finding-the-most-frequent-word

bitcoin book pdf
https://www.lopp.net/pdf/princeton_bitcoin_book.pdf
https://unglueit-files.s3.amazonaws.com/ebf/05db7df4f31840f0a873d6ea14dcc28d.pdf
https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
https://d28rh4a8wq0iu5.cloudfront.net/bitcointech/readings/princeton_bitcoin_book.pdf
http://euro.ecom.cmu.edu/resources/elibrary/epay/IntroductiontoBitcoinMiningSterry.pdf
https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/IN5420/v18/timeplan/resources/bitcoin-and-cryptocurrency-techniques.pdf

- I guess this is a follow on from some of my other work in cybersecurity:

http://sites.google.com/site/dtbnguyen/

http://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com.au/
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/seclist-generator-random-stuff-and-more.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/web-server-global-sampling.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/02/dnsamazon-s3githubblogspotwordpress.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/dnsamazon-s3github-enumeration-pack.html

https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2020/01/email-harvesting-notes-sperminator-ari.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2019/08/linux-assembly-analyser-script-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/09/web-traverser-security-script-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/08/web-traffic-creator-script-random-stuff.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/04/network-mapping-tool-random-stuff-and.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/02/email-address-harvesting-script-random.html
https://dtbnguyen.blogspot.com/2018/01/social-media-comment-bot-random-stuff.html

Random Stuff:

- as usual thanks to all of the individuals and groups who purchase and use my goods and services

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- A whopping 84 percent of all stocks owned by Americans belong to the wealthiest 10 percent of households. And that includes everyone's stakes in pension plans, 401(k)'s and individual retirement accounts, as well as trust funds, mutual funds and college savings programs like 529 plans.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/economy/stocks-economy.html

- When Americans go to the polls in November, one of the issues they’ll be voting on will be whether big tech companies should be broken up. It’s become an election promise for most of the Democrat frontrunners, with Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Joe Biden all proposing the use of strengthened anti-trust laws to remove the influence of what they claim are monopolistic companies. 

At least part of that is due to the threat that big tech poses to the democratic process; President Donald Trump’s surprise success in the 2016 election was partly pinned on the efforts of Cambridge Analytica, which harvested the data of millions of Facebook users in order to target political advertising better. 

Also in question are big tech’s business practices. Presidential candidate Ms Warren believes that Facebook’s purchase of competitors Instagram and WhatsApp constitutes an anti-competitive practice. Facebook has also been accused of copying features from rival apps, including Snapchat. 

At the same time, Amazon participates in its own marketplace, allowing them to leverage their own service to force smaller competitors and sellers out. For example: the oft-cited story of Amazon massively lowering its own prices in order to force a diaper seller out of business after said seller refused a buyout offer. Amazon ultimately shut the company down after acquiring it. 

Then there’s the issue of taxes. Amazon’s attempt to open a new headquarters in the Manhattan borough of Queens – which it claimed would create 25,000 jobs – was met with stiff opposition from residents and politicians after it became apparent that the company would receive more than $3 billion in government subsidies despite paying almost no federal taxes. 

“I have nothing against Amazon, but no company pulling in billions of dollars of profits should pay a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers,” Mr Biden tweeted in June. 

“We need to reward work, not just wealth.” 

But more than anything, the reason why the issue is a Democrat campaign promise is because it’s popular. The world has become more suspicious of big tech companies due to their willingness to sell their users’ data to the highest bidder. Public relations disasters – like the leak of a Facebook experiment where the company determined they could manipulate users’ moods by altering what they saw in their news feeds, or Amazon’s cloud computing contract with the CIA –  have not helped the situation.

In fact, the only time that the idea of breaking up massive companies that support hundreds of thousands of jobs has been as popular was during the GFC, when citizens and politicians alike called for more stringent regulation of Wall Street. 

At the outset of the last decade, the role that big tech would play in society was unknown. Many thought they could create a more connected and open society, while providing net benefits in terms of innovation and employment. Others were wary of the amount of information those companies commanded and how they might use it. In 2020, the matter is settled. Far from being benevolent innovators that merely wanted to improve our lives, many tech companies have actively made them worse. If big tech companies are broken up, they’ll have brought it upon themselves.

https://www.investordaily.com.au/regulation/46320-big-tech-deserves-to-be-broken-up

- IS, which included ex-members of Saddam's army, was then fought by the Hashed al-Shaabi, a network of Shiite armed groups that have now been incorporated into the state.  

Saddam's soldiers, IS jihadists and Hashed factions have all been opposed by the US, but the last of the three is now proving to be a massive thorn in Washington's side.

The US sees the Hashed as the Iraqi extension of Iran, which the administration considers its regional foe.

"What America has not done is translate the military strength into political leverage," said Fanar Haddad, an expert at the National University of Singapore's Middle East Institute.

The US had long prioritised Iraq's stability over real democracy and state-building, he said, which ultimately led to "the failure of the American project in Iraq."

Now, Iraq is threatening to oust foreign forces from its soil, including 5,200 US troops.

Washington insists troops will stay, despite a controversial letter from a top US defence official in Baghdad saying forces were preparing to "move out." 

US President Donald Trump said an ouster would prompt devastating sanctions on Iraq, whose officials countered that would only send Baghdad further into Tehran's orbit.

The war-of-words has eclipsed the protest movement, whose young activists were mostly born just before 2003 and have called for, among other things, "Iraqi freedom."

And as protesters have slammed Iran for holding too much sway in Iraq, they have also hinted at another desire: a return to the presidential system in place under Saddam. 

"We used to have one dictator. Now we have a lot of small dictators," said one protester in Baghdad's Tahrir Square, where demonstrators have begun holding big banners that read, "No to Iran, No to the US!" 

"We just want to live free," the protester added. 

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- Turkish officials have long complained that the U.S. partnership with Syrian Kurds is a betrayal of decades of U.S.-Turkey partnership. The People’s Protection Units (YPG) and associated militias, Turkish diplomats argue, are affiliated with the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), a U.S.-designated terror group. Turkish authorities have repeatedly told their American counterparts that “you can’t fight one terrorist group with another.”

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/dark-side-turkeys-intelligence-community-73041

- “Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AParanoia

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

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- Payot are worn by some men and boys in the Orthodox Jewish community based on an interpretation of the Biblical injunction against shaving the "corners" of one's head. Literally, pe'ah means "corner, side, edge". There are different styles of payot among Haredi / Hasidic, Yemenite, and Chardal Jews.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payot

- When you have a more compassionate mind, everything appears to you in a more positive light. If we employ our human intelligence with warm-heartedness, it creates a happy atmosphere and fosters a happy community.

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