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The old Yahoo Messenger, i think prior to 7.0 ,used to keep the encrypted password in the registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\Pager under a key called
“EOptions String” this can be decrypted by using Yahoo’s own dll located in the Yahoo Install directory “ycrwin32.dll” (more…)

Don’t know the root-level password for MySQL? Or just plain forgot it? (more…)

There are several ways to obtain password hashes, depending on their location and existing access. Password hashes can be obtained from SAM file or its backup, directly from local or remote computer registry, from registry or Active Directory on local or remote computer by means of DLL injection, from a network sniffer. The SAM file located in the %SystemRoot%\system32\config directory or %SystemRoot%\repair directory. It is also possible to recover the password itself from memory.

Here’s a few free tools to help you recover lost/unknown Windows passwords, most come with the source code included. (more…)

Our first tool release will be a program to recover passwords from AOL 6.x. Our free Demo version will be released soon and will only show the first 3 letters and the length of the password

AIM 6.x (6.5 & beta 6.8) uses 2 algorithms to encrypt your AIM password. First the Blowfish algorithm is used to encrypt the AIM password using a 448 bit keyword.
The encrypted string is then encoded using base64 and stored in the registry at:
\\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\America Online\AIM6\Passwords