WEBVTT 00:01.120 --> 00:05.800 In this video we're talking about data breaches and using Notepad++. 00:06.600 --> 00:08.800 So generally with data breaches. 00:08.800 --> 00:12.800 And I do love using data breaches for connecting things together. 00:12.800 --> 00:19.160 Things like if I have an email address, I'll check data breach either online or the breaches that I 00:19.160 --> 00:25.920 have, or if I have a password or a username, I'll check it against these data breaches, see if I 00:25.920 --> 00:27.440 can match it up with a person. 00:28.560 --> 00:37.160 Now, if you if you have your own data breach, that things that you grab from online or other compilation 00:37.160 --> 00:45.040 of breaches and you put it into a file, I like putting it into either XLS file or not. 00:45.080 --> 00:46.960 Excel CSV file. 00:47.560 --> 00:54.440 You could do a XLS or a text file, and when you download these breaches, typically it's either a text 00:54.440 --> 00:56.880 file or a CSV file. 00:57.600 --> 01:01.920 Sometimes it's a PDF, or more often than not, it's a lot of times it's going to be a. 01:01.920 --> 01:09.680 TXT file And indexing these files can be kind of a pain in the butt. 01:10.800 --> 01:13.160 That's why I like using Notepad++. 01:14.240 --> 01:20.920 Now you could set up something like a SQL database or some sort of database to read that stuff. 01:21.360 --> 01:23.680 If you know that stuff, fantastic. 01:23.880 --> 01:25.080 Go ahead and do that. 01:26.120 --> 01:30.160 For me, I'm not a like a SQL database guy. 01:30.560 --> 01:34.920 So that's why I will generally use things like Notepad++ for it. 01:35.440 --> 01:41.240 And this is free for windows, Linux, Mac. 01:41.640 --> 01:43.320 And it's pretty easy to use. 01:44.760 --> 01:48.000 Now sometimes you'll end up with a data breach like this. 01:48.000 --> 01:50.880 And this is one I messed around with the password. 01:50.880 --> 01:56.840 So this particular one, this is a small section of what it really is. 01:57.400 --> 01:58.440 The actual data breach. 01:58.440 --> 02:06.040 I got contained somewhere about 135,000 plus accounts in there. 02:07.280 --> 02:12.600 And the problem is those 135,000 plus accounts end up on one line. 02:12.840 --> 02:17.520 So that makes it really hard to go through and start searching stuff. 02:18.840 --> 02:22.080 Um, even if I did a search function, it's just going to be one long line. 02:22.120 --> 02:23.520 I don't particularly like that. 02:23.720 --> 02:25.680 Now to fix it. 02:26.120 --> 02:28.640 It'd be nicer if all these were on separate lines. 02:29.080 --> 02:34.040 And of course, I can go in here and I could enter and then start dropping these down one by one. 02:34.760 --> 02:39.280 But again, for 135,000 plus accounts. 02:39.560 --> 02:40.600 I don't think so. 02:41.200 --> 02:46.520 So an easier way to do that is you can open up your notepad plus plus a file. 02:46.640 --> 02:51.160 You do control H and that will open up this. 02:52.840 --> 02:53.360 Okay. 02:53.400 --> 02:57.120 So we have our slash backslash s backslash n. 02:57.280 --> 03:02.880 And we want to make sure regular expressions are is checked there. 03:04.000 --> 03:04.400 Okay. 03:04.440 --> 03:05.960 Then I'm going to do replace all. 03:07.400 --> 03:11.040 And now we have all of these on separate lines here. 03:11.120 --> 03:13.230 So again, really easy. 03:14.230 --> 03:16.430 It makes it a whole lot easier to read. 03:16.910 --> 03:23.830 And also, if we close this out, if I want to search for anything in particular, I can go to search 03:23.830 --> 03:24.230 here. 03:24.230 --> 03:30.230 And I could do find or I could do Ctrl f and pull up the search box and I could do some like outlook. 03:34.150 --> 03:39.390 Hit enter or do find next and it'll look for anything that has outlook there. 03:40.430 --> 03:47.230 Or if I'm looking for a that's if I'm looking for a particular email type or if I'm looking for a particular 03:47.390 --> 03:48.190 username. 03:50.310 --> 03:57.710 Let's say I'm looking for Edgar, I click, I type in Edgar, I do find next and it'll find Edgar here. 03:58.550 --> 04:04.350 Likewise if I have if I say searching for Gmail, I could do find next. 04:04.870 --> 04:08.350 And it'll highlight every user that has Gmail in there. 04:08.350 --> 04:13.870 So again just some simple things that makes life a whole lot easier when we're indexing this type of 04:13.870 --> 04:14.350 stuff. 04:14.670 --> 04:15.630 Thanks for watching. 04:15.630 --> 04:16.790 I'll see you next video.