I still have CDs lying around that I have created more than ten years ago. Some of them are still working fine while others have unreadable sectors or files. I’m not sure if the type and manufacturer of each individual recordable CD has something to do with that, or if it is more a storage [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you have every accidentally lost data that you needed at a later time you know that data recovery is one of the options to recover data. The only other option are data backups but only if they have been created regularly and if the files that need to be accessed have been included. Data [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Are you a Firefox user who regularly cleans the Firefox history and other traces like downloads from the web browser’s memory? Do you think that these information are really gone and cannot be recovered because you have deleted them? You might want to think again as it is usually possible to recover data on computer [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Open Source

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 [...]

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There are a few things that laptop owners can do to prevent laptop theft. Probably the most important one is to keep an eye on the laptop all the time. Sometimes however that is not enough and the laptop gets stolen or lost. There is little chance of getting the laptop back once it has [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Security, Software, Windows

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 [...]

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