posted in News & media, Stuff on Nov 29th, 2009
According the latest Microsoft’s researches guessing FTP passwords is still a valuable way to harvest account information. People still forget or ignore to change their default password or change it that way attackers can easily guess. Microsoft releases password attack data Microsoft released data collected from an FTP-server honeypot, showing that attempts to guess passwords [...]
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posted in Tools & sources on Jul 28th, 2009
Tool name : FFPasswordRecovery 0.2 Description : FFPasswordRecovery is a tool to extract and decrypt the Firefox authentication and auto complete information. Tested on : Windows XP, Firefox 3.5.7 Feedback : In case you encounter any problems with the tool, you have suggestions to improve it, or you tested it with a [...]
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posted in External tools on May 31st, 2009
Tool name : THC Hydra Description : THC Hydra is a fast network authentication cracker which supports many different services. When you need to brute force crack a remote authentication service, Hydra is often the tool of choice. It can perform rapid dictionary attacks against more then 30 protocols, including telnet, [...]
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posted in External tools on May 24th, 2009
Tool name : Cain & Abel Description : UNIX users often smugly assert that the best free security tools support their platform first, and Windows ports are often an afterthought. They are usually right, but Cain & Abel is a glaring exception. This Windows-only password recovery tool handles an enormous variety [...]
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posted in Tools & sources on May 19th, 2009
Tool name : IEPasswordRecovery 0.1 Description : IEPasswordRecovery searches inside Microsofts protected storage area for Internet Explorer auto completion (authentication input fields in a page) and HTTP authentication entries. If such an entry was found the hostname, username and password are printed on the display. Only Internet Explorer up to version 6 use the [...]
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