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richie_h
Starting Member
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 Posted - 26 November 2003 : 18:09:45
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Hi,
Someone has hacked by site. I am trying to change the passwor din the database, however the password has been encrypted somehow!?
It looks like this #5687;#35753;#5745;#49680;#53589; this is only half of it, but does anyone know what would of encrypted a password to look like this!?? If so where can I encrypt a new password and paste it to my database?
ASP.NET and SQL database.
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 26 November 2003 : 19:17:54
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| Is this your SQL Database password, or a password that is used by a web application and is stored in your SQL Database? If it's a web application, what sort of application is it? Does it use password encryption? If so, what type? |
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richie_h
Starting Member
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Posted - 26 November 2003 : 19:55:31
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| Hi, the site was built for me and I can't get in touch with the person who built it, but basically it's my password for the front of the site so I can edit the site. As I 've been hacked I wasnt to change this as it gives access to all my files through a filemanager app. I'm not sure what it's been encrypted in, I have search on the web but I can't find anything that encrypts and looks like this... could it be something in dreamweaver as I know the designer used this originally. |
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richie_h
Starting Member
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Posted - 26 November 2003 : 19:57:34
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I've just noticed that the original post changed the password... it looks like this.
#5687;#35753;#5745;#49680;#53589; |
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richie_h
Starting Member
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 26 November 2003 : 20:55:51
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It looks more like a different character set instead of encryption. Can you manually edit the database and just change the current password to something else? (i.e. test1) and then try logging on with that new password.
Other than that, I don't think we can be of much help. |
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MasterOfTheCats
Junior Member
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Posted - 26 November 2003 : 21:56:56
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These are actually double byte characters, a flavour of Unicode. It looks like Chinese. They are kept in the database as #NNNNNN; sequences...
If you don't have a related keyboard (HW or SW) you cannot type them in... If it is a Snitz 3.4.x forum password, you cannot change it through the database (ref your other post in this forum), you have to do it through normal means.
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MasterOfTheCats
Junior Member
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Posted - 26 November 2003 : 21:59:33
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To see the following (what you tried to type as PW) select View/Encoding/Unicode(UTF-8) from your IE menu.
This is it: á·è®©á±ìí
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RichardKinser
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
16655 Posts |
Posted - 26 November 2003 : 22:21:55
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quote:
Originally posted by MasterOfTheCats
If it is a Snitz 3.4.x forum password, you cannot change it through the database (ref your other post in this forum), you have to do it through normal means.
Actually, you can. For example, if you wanted to change the password to test1:
un-encrypted: test1
encrypted: 1b4f0e9851971998e732078544c96b36c3d01cedf7caa332359d6f1d83567014 I have a page here that can be used for this purpose. |
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MasterOfTheCats
Junior Member
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Posted - 27 November 2003 : 11:21:06
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Well, of course you can :) That's quite an utility, good for non-programmers. Thank you for the link...
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richie_h
Starting Member
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Posted - 27 November 2003 : 12:35:38
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| All sorted now thanks... It was done in visual studio.. thanks very much for your help... site up and running again. |
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