Posts tagged Cracking password
Lock/Unlock Computer With Pendrive
0First, what is “syskey”?
SYSKEY is a utility that encrypts the hashed password information in a SAM database in a Windows system using a 128-bit encryption key.
SYSKEY was an optional feature added in Windows NT 4.0 SP3. It was meant to protect against offline password cracking attacks so that the SAM database would still be secure even if someone had a copy of it. However, in December 1999, a security team from Bind View found a security hole in SYSKEY which indicates that a certain form of cryptanalytic attack is possible offline. A brute force attack then appeared to be More >
BackTrack 5 Released – The Most Advanced Linux Security Distribution & LiveCD
4We have of course been following BackTrack since the very early days, way back in 2006 when it was just known as BackTrack – A merger between WHAX and Auditor. They’ve come a long way and BackTrack is now a very polished and well rounded security distro, most of the others have dropped off the map leaving BackTrack as the giant in the security LiveCD space.
The last major release was BackTrack Final 4 Released – Linux Security Distribution – back in January 2010.
The BackTrack Dev team has worked furiously in the past months on BackTrack 5, code name “revolution” – they released it on May More >
How to hack windows cain passwords .
37Introduction:- In Your Windows XP, 7, VISTA, NT or 2000 system there is a file which store your system password. this file is sam(system account manager) which store all your account information (i.e., user name, password and user setting) and because password can’t be saved as it is in a file because it can be hacked easily therefore Windows encrypt this password using a key(this key is stored in System file). Both System and SAM file is stored at the same location i.e.,
C:\WINDOWS\system32\config
so to recover password we need both these file but because these file are locked so we can not More >
What is a password ?
12A password is an unspaced sequence of characters used to determine that a computer user requesting access to a computer system is really that particular user. Typically, users of a multiuser or securely protected single-user system claim a unique name (often called a user ID) that can be generally known. In order to verify that someone entering that user ID really is that person, a second identification, the password, known only to that person and to the system itself, is entered by the user. A password is typically somewhere between four and 16 characters, depending on how the computer More >
Cracking Linux Password when Grub cannot be changed
21In the previous post we learnt about cracking Linux Password using the Grub – Dropping to Single User Mode.
However, if the Grub is password protected, then this method will not work. So in such cases, we can use the Linux Live CD to crack the Linux Password. Follow the below given steps to change the Linux Password, using the Linux Live CD.
- Boot your computer from your Linux Live CD, choosing “Try Linux without any change to your computer” from the boot menu.
- Once the system boots open up a new Terminal window and then type in the following command: sudo fdisk –l
- This command is used to More >
How to hide the Bat file code without using any third party software
22Hey Guys, Now let us see how we can do that:
Step 1: Open the wordpad. Start Run wordpad Copy the bat file and paste it into the wordpad.
Step 2: Now right click on the bat file.
Step 3: Click on edit package. A new window will appear. Go to Edit menu.
Step 4: Click on edit menu and select the copy package.
Step 5: Now go to the place where you want to save the file. Like I went to c: drive. Then just paste the file.
Step 6: A new file will be there with name of scrap. It will work as a batch file, when you will double click on this.
Step 7: If you will try to open the file in More >
How to Change/Crack BIOS Password
13Hello friends,
This is a Tutorial showing “How to Change/Crack BIOS Password”.
Please give comments if you like.
