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    wordlists: most common words

    March 18, 2017 less than 1 minute read

    for password attacks one needs good password lists. the following are quite nice:

    • in kali: /usr/share/wordlists
    • lots of different lists, mostly aquired from different website leaks: https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists
    • 10k most common english words: https://github.com/first20hours/google-10000-english

    Tags: github, kali, password, wordlist, wordlists

    Categories: vuln

    Updated: March 18, 2017

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