Windows users have many options at hand to recover an account password if they cannot remember it and the sign in fails because of this. We have covered a few options in the past, check out Reset Windows Passwords or Create a Windows Password Reset Disk for pointers. Another option if you still can log [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It is common knowledge that a website, such as PayPal or eBay, will never ask for your password. They do not need it, but rarely do we hear about why that is the case. There are actually a few possibilities. Please note, if you ever get an e-mail requesting your username and password, it is [...]

Categories: Security, Tutorials Basic

The latest video card generation that is manufactured by ATI and Nvidia can be used to speed up password recovery attempts tremendously. Toolkits like Nvidia’s CUDA offer drivers and development examples to aid developer’s in the integration of gpu accelerated password recovery programs. One of the programs that is making use of the gpu to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Password recovery questions are great to recover a forgotten password in a matter of seconds. All that needs to be done is to answer the password recovery question to receive a new password in the email inbox. This does however make email hacking a profitable business as email accounts are usually connected to online stores [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

Two of the most popular and respected software developers are NirSoft and Sysinternals. They both produce high quality software programs for the Windows operating system that is often considered the best of its kind. The sheer amount of software programs makes it sometimes difficulty to keep an overview of the programs. That’s where the portable [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I administer a LOT of Linux systems. Most of those systems information are in a file I keep that tells me what their passwords are. I normally either do not forget a root password or do not lose the paperwork for a Linux system. But I have been in situations where a new client had [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

A password protected zip archive cannot be accessed unless the password can be supplied to unlock it. The only other method of accessing a password protected zip file would be to use a password recovery software like PicoZip. The password recovery software supports both dictionary and brute force methods. The first relies on known words [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It is beyond me why someone would still use Outlook Express unless company’s policies would force him to do so. Many users probably use it because it is there within Windows by default and because it works. If you are one of those users you might like to continue reading this article about password recovery [...]

Categories: Email, Software, Windows

Microsoft Outlook .pst (Personal Folder) files can be password protected with a very weak encryption algorithm which is great for users who have forgotten the password of their password protected files. Those users, and anyone else, will unfortunately also come to the conclusion that a weak password protection might keep a spying wife or co-worker [...]

Categories: Email, Software