Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Hacking Myspace passwords

Are you interested in hacking Myspace passwords? This article will get you started in the right direction. First off I'm not interested in why you want to hack someones password so I'm going to pretend that you're just doing research on the subject. Be careful, because I'm sure that Myspace would be very displeased if they found out you were attempting to hack there accounts since most people have a hard enough time using there spyware software let alone worry about securing there passwords. That aside, to get started the first thing you would try would be to take a guess about some personal information. Here's a list of the usual password suspects.
  • 123, 1234 or 123456 (depending on the length of the password)* password (you'd be surprised how many people just use 'password')
  • the city where you live, were born, or of your favorite sports team
  • the last 4 digits of your social security number* your wife/girlfriends, husband's/boyfriends, or kids name
  • the above with a 0 or 1 at the end
  • the above's birthdate


These are the most common as they are easy to remember and most people don't want to be bothered with there passwords. I would recommend concentrating on this list, or a combination of this list, for quite a while while doing your own trial and error. If you have tried countless combinations with no luck, it's time to go on to phase two.


Brute Force Attack


To summarize, a brute force attack is a method of defeating a cryptographic scheme by trying a large number of possibilities. So, basically, you're throwing large amounts
of data at a server to see if you can get lucky and find the userid/password
combinations. It's kind of like throwing enough rice at the wall to see what will
stick. While it is mathematically possible to password hack an account with this
technique, it would be very difficult for an amateur to do. A brute force attack is
expected to be able to find a key using a formula equal to half the size of the key
space. If there are 2/64 possible keys, then a brute force attack is expected to find
the password hack in 2/63 attempts. This is a very computation-intense search and
even if you did find the combination, you have to hope it's not encrypted so you can
use it.

The amount of time required to break a 128 bit key is also daunting. Each of
the 2128 possibilities must be checked. This is an enormous number,
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 in decimal. A device that could check a billion billion keys (1018) per second would still require about 1013 years to exhaust the key space.So as you can imagine, this is usually not a good option.But if your interested, you can find brute force software on the Internet.


Are there any other options? If you dig around on some search engines you will find
all sorts of sites on how to hack Myspace passwords. Know this, some of these posts are
from true hacker types that have in-depth knowledge of programming and system
security holes that others would not be able to grasp; and some are just using
scripts they found posted elsewhere that may nor may not work, or may be a virus. If
this is a topic you are really interested in pursuing you need to know what you are
doing. You will need to know the consequences of your actions because hacking
Myspace passwords
, as with any kind of hacking, pushes all sorts of limits in ethical and legal boundaries.

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