TWOFI:- Twofi was written by Robin Wood at DigNinja. This tool can use to grab the contents of the user’s or company’s twitter feed. This tool allows to create custom wordlist for cracking passwords, explain ethical hacking investigators.
For launching twofi
- Type twofi in linux terminal as shown below:-
- Before using twofi you must have an twitter developer’s account and the twitter api key
- If twofi is not installed, for downloading twofi type:
- git clone https://github.com/digininja/twofi
- The config file for twofi is /etc/twofi/twofi.yml as shown below:
==============OUTPUT SNIP===============
- Now we have to mention twitter API key and secret in this twofi.yml file.
- For creating the api keys go to https://apps.twitter.com and create twitter developer account.
- Enter key which you have created from twitter developer account in twofi.yml.
- After saving API key, it will view something like this below:
For security reasons the keys has marked red. The above key is only for testing purposes.
- Now type: twofi -c -u hack as shown below.
- In the above screenshot, the list can be used in creating the wordlist for attacking on any account in twitter and other bruteforce attacks.
Ethical hacking researcher of international institute of cyber security has found that hackers use these kinds of tools to create wordlist for breaking passwords and other attacks.
Cyber Security Researcher. Information security specialist, currently working as risk infrastructure specialist & investigator. He is a cyber-security researcher with over 25 years of experience. He has served with the Intelligence Agency as a Senior Intelligence Officer. He has also worked with Google and Citrix in development of cyber security solutions. He has aided the government and many federal agencies in thwarting many cyber crimes. He has been writing for us in his free time since last 5 years.
