My personal Strava movie – 2016
Strava, the sport and fitness app has created a personlised year in exercise, just for me!
It’s a real film about all my stats and activities throughout the year.
The biggest hacks of 2016 – A year in hacking
In case you didn’t know, in amongst the celebrity deaths, and the unraveling of the NWO bandwagon, 2016 was also a bumper year for hackers. Some of the biggest and most audacious hacks in history took place in 2016, including the hacking of the US elections, and the Mirai botnet DDOS attack, which took down some of the biggest sites on the internet including Amazon, Facebook and Twitter.
There have been the largest hacks of personal information in history. Also in 2016. Names such as Yahoo, with billions of accounts compromised.
So here’s my little run-down.
2016 – A year in hacking.
5) Adultfriendfinder hack – November 14th, 2016
Friend Finder Network Inc is a company that operates a wide range of 18+ services and was hacked in November of 2016 for over 400 million accounts representing 20 years of customer data.
A list of sites verified and how many affected accounts and a brief description:
- Adultfriendfinder.com
339,774,493 users
“World’s largest sex & swinger community” - Cams.com
62,668,630 users
“Where adults meet models for sex chat live through webcams” - Penthouse.com
7,176,877 users
Adult magazine akin to Playboy - Stripshow.com
1,423,192 users
Another 18+ webcam site - iCams.com
1,135,731 users
“Free Live Sex Cams” - Unknown domain
35,372 users
Total: 412,214,295 affected users
Most of the passwords hacked from the Friendfinder network were stored either as plain text, or lightly encrypted, (in the SHA1 protocol).
Once the accounts were modified and the encrypted passwords hacked, they were made available for sale on the Darkweb.
Here’s a list of the passwords most commonly used:-
| Rank | Password | Frequency |
| 1 | 123456 | 900,420 |
| 2 | 12345 | 635,995 |
| 3 | 123456789 | 585,150 |
| 4 | 12345678 | 145,867 |
| 5 | 1234567890 | 133,414 |
| 6 | 1234567 | 112,956 |
| 7 | password | 101,046 |
| 8 | qwerty | 86,050 |
| 9 | qwertyuiop | 43,755 |
| 10 | 987654321 | 40,627 |
| 11 | 123123 | 39,614 |
| 12 | 111111 | 38,848 |
| 13 | pussy | 37,938 |
| 14 | fuckme | 36,008 |
| 15 | asdfghjkl | 35,021 |
| 16 | 000000 | 34,631 |
| 17 | fuckyou | 34,498 |
| 18 | abc123 | 34,080 |
| 19 | 00000 | 33,796 |
| 20 | 11111 | 33,263 |
| 21 | 55555 | 31,524 |
| 22 | 54321 | 31,278 |
| 23 | 123452 | 30,111 |
| 24 | 654321 | 29,624 |
| 25 | pwd1234 | 28,061 |
| 26 | zxcvbnm | 27,237 |
| 27 | iloveyou | 24,155 |
| 28 | qwert | 22,499 |
| 29 | 666666 | 21,629 |
| 30 | asdfg | 20,696 |
| 31 | 0123456789 | 20,485 |
| 32 | azerty | 19,700 |
| 33 | 0987654321 | 19,641 |
| 34 | france | 19,559 |
| 35 | abcd1234 | 19,056 |
| 36 | password1 | 18,677 |
| 37 | fffff | 18,461 |
| 38 | 112233 | 18,152 |
| 39 | 696969 | 18,150 |
| 40 | 123321 | 17,703 |
| 41 | 121212 | 17,302 |
| 42 | asdfgh | 16,400 |
| 43 | football | 16,080 |
| 44 | 12345678910 | 16,054 |
| 45 | abcde | 15,789 |
| 46 | qwerty123 | 15,286 |
| 47 | 1qaz2wsx | 14,885 |
| 48 | 123123123 | 14,691 |
| 49 | pakistan | 14,173 |
| 50 | aaaaa | 13,543 |
Source: Leaked source.
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Telematics box
So, I’ve got this new Telematics Box. Because I’ve been out of the country so long, the insurers don’t want to deal with me. The best way of bringing my premium down was to agree to the installation of one of these ‘Telematics boxes’.
Telematics
Telematics basically referrers to the transfer of information using Telemetry, similar to mobile phone technology. You can’t expect the unit to transmit in a tunnel, high on a mountain, or anywhere else where you can’t receive a mobile signal. …
ZTE MF730M Dongle
Internet Dongle for Narrowboat users
Getting slightly bored of only being able to use the internet in one room, I’ve invested in this THREE dongle.
It basically allows me to connect anywhere, at least anywhere where there is THREE network.
Currently, it allows me to connect at 3G speeds, which are fairly good, THREE have the best 3G network in the UK. I did some research on the subject, and it seems that they invested heavily in it. Whilst EE rushed out the 4G.
EE 4g Claims
Although EE claim to offer 4G here, I purchased a SIM to try out these claims.
Turns out their service was patchy at best, nothing like what their website claimed, (full coverage at 4G speeds), as pictured.
VOD: Russian USB Killer
Got a friend that you don’t like?
Buy them this for Christmas…
The USB Killer
Simply plug it in to any USB device, and hey presto! 220volts of Russian goodness will be making it’s way to your hard-drive, like bad sperm to an egg…
The device was created by a security researcher by the name of ‘Dark Purple’.
You can find more details of it here.
Free Windows 10
**Update:
Never look a gift horse in teh mouth, or in this case, do.
Turns out that this latest version of Windows is not only free, but gives free access to ‘relevant authorities’ who may wish to access your data, view how you use your files, or view what files you have;
Microsoft released a statement to this effect: –
“Microsoft may share information when required by law or to respond to legal process or lawful requests, including from law enforcement or other government agencies.”
You have been warned….
It comes out tomorrow. Wednesday the 29th.
It’s free to upgrade for users of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.
Your system: Windows 10 has requirements –
Processor: 1GHz
RAM: 1GB for 32-bit or 2GB for 64-bit
Storage: 16GB for 32-bit or 20GB for 64-bit
Graphics support: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
Display: 800 x 600 resolution
Pakistan invents water powered motorcycle
According to this report, inventors in Pakistan have created a kit which will allow a motorcycle to be run almost entirely on water.