If you’ve forgotten your Mac’s admin account password, don’t worry. Assuming you haven’t locked out OpenFirmware, it’s a pretty simple task to change your password back to something you know.

Here’s how:
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Losing your root password isn’t the end of the world, though. You’ll just need to reboot into single user mode to reset it. Here’s how to do it on a typical Ubuntu machine with the GRUB bootloader:

Boot Linux into single-user mode

1. Reboot the machine.
2. Press the ESC key while GRUB is loading to enter the menu.
3. If there is a ‘recovery mode’ option, select it and press ‘b’ to boot into single user mode.
4. Otherwise, the default boot configuration should be selected. Press ‘e’ to edit it.
5. Highlight the line that begins with ‘kernel’. Press ‘e’ again to edit this line.
6. At the end of the line, add an additional parameter: ‘single’. Hit return to make the change and press ‘b’ to boot.

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We’ve re-branded our AIMView program to AIM Recover. Only because it sounds better and is a better search term. We’ve updated some code to fix a few bugs. Right now we are in the process of reworking the AIM Pro password recovery method to make recovery more reliable. The new Demo will be available for download in the next few days and anyone who bought the app will automatically be sent the new version. Thanks for those supporting the site with their purchases.

Apply a lock to your iPhone, and it’ll ask you for a four-digit passcode. However, it’ll also let you make an emergency call. Go into the menu to dial the emergency number, perform a quick double-click on the ‘home’ button, and your phone’s favorites menu will appear.

Not only that, if you’ve changed the settings then whatever you’ve applied to the double tap action will pop open.
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That you’ll ever need?
Windows/Mac/Linux: Firefox extension and Internet Explorer add-on LastPass is a secure password manager for all your web passwords. Like other web-focused password managers, LastPass puts all of your individual passwords behind one master password. When you type in that master password, LastPass can then automatically log you in to any web site you visit with saved login credentials. Even better, LastPass syncs passwords over the internet, so all your saved passwords on your work computer, for example, will always be synced up on your home computer.

Create strong passwords, knowing you only have to remember one.

Log into your favorite sites with a single click

Access and manage your data from multiple computers seamlessly

Share logins with friends and let others share logins with you

https://lastpass.com

Html code to bypass the webinterface password protection of the Belkin wireless G router + adsl2 modem.Tested on model F5D7632-4V6 with upgraded firmware 6.01.08.
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Most solutions for getting around the captive portals used in $7 airport wireless services involve sniffing the network and spoofing authenticated MAC addresses. An old post from 2006 by Felix Geisendörfer who discovered that some of these proxy systems are set up to allow pictures through before payment.
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If you’ve ever saved a password when connecting to a website that requires authentication, for a remote desktop session or a mapped drive, you might have wondered where those passwords are saved. You can view these by going to the Start button then the Run dialog box and paste this:

rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr

or

control keymgr.dll

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Lost your password for NT,2K,XP,2K3?
illwill from illmob.org created a DOS based floppy that you can boot with that will mount an ntfs drive and extract the SAM hashes from an NT based system. You can then use any cracking software or free hash cracking sites to recover your lost password.
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by LysergicBliss
A cardinal rule of computer security is that once an attacker has
acquired physical access to a machine, it is generally trivial for
that attacker to fully compromise the system. As technology
improves, this is becoming less the case, but for now, if an attacker
has physical access to a machine, the attacker can generally breach
its security.
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