This is a short explanation of how I took over a subdomain by doing recon at the right time and what I…
Tl;Dr — CREST, for all the good they do for UK infosec, is peddling out of date, and fairly useless examinations (the CRT in particular) that lead to people getting qualified in a field that has moved a long way on from the bar that CREST is holding dear to. CREST needs to modernize…
In 2015 a 9 character password was trivial to crack in less that 2 minutes… at that time 12 characters was 64 years plus depending on complexity.
We’ve moved on since then and GPU’s and cheap cluster cloud computing services have made the process even faster and cheaper.
The Internet was once brimming with potential both globally and here in Canada. Sadly what was once an opportunity for global connectedness and endless digital possibilities has become a breeding ground for illicit hacking activity, secretive data collection and government…