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 [...]
Configure Fine-grained Password Policies In Windows Server 2008
So called fine-grained password policies are a new feature of Windows Server 2008. This new feature allows system administrators to configure password policies for different user groups. Windows Server 2003 was not as flexible as it only allowed to set one password policy for all users. The manual configuration of fine-grained password policies requires quite [...]
Password Protect Applications
If you do not want that your kids are running the latest ID software blockbuster, that someone snoops around in your email client or that someone destroys your perfect win streak in Solitaire you might want to consider using a software like Empathy which can password protect any executable file.
Empathy is a portable application that [...]
Lockcrypt Password Safe
Where do you store your usernames and passwords ? In a text document on your computer ? In your wallet ? Storing sensible information like passwords, but also other type of data like information about medication or credit card numbers, unencrypted is a security risk. If someone is after those information he immediately knows how to use them against you.
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Dec 17th, 2007
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Where’s that darn router password?
I think this has happened to many of us before. There are as many passwords and user names to routers as stars in the sky and even if you’ve used one before, you’ll ask: “is it admin – admin, or admin – password, or user – admin?”
Now you can stop wondering, since Routerpasswords has all [...]
Distributed Password Recovery using Geforce 8 Video Cards
The software Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery was designed for distributed recovery of lost passwords providing hardware acceleration for NTLM password recovery using GeForce 8 video cards which speeds up the process by a factor of up to 25).
Find out your bios password
The bios can be protected with a password to prevent others from accessing its settings. You have to enter the password to be able to access it, if you can’t provide the correct one the access gets denied. The following method describes a way to recover the password if you forgot it or bought a used computer with a bios password.
