During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde was using the following password:

“MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy”

When asked why such a big password, she said (wait for it)….

… that it had to be at least 8 characters long.

When your Droid is locked you are asked to input a pattern using onscreen dots before you can access your homescreen. This can be bypassed when the phone has an incoming call, all you have to do is press the “Back” button to get to the emails, contact lists, and other personal info. You have full access to all applications and data; for as long as the incoming call is in progress, and you do not select the “Home” icon. When the call ends, or you select the “Home” icon, the Droid asks you to enter the unlock pattern.

A new multi-platform password cracking tool hashcat was just released publicly.
Tested on XP, Win7, Gentoo, Debian

The main features of hashcat are:

* It is free.
* Native binaries for Linux and Windows.
* Multi-threaded.
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If you look at the source code — on the sign up page — and do a simple search for ‘twttr.BANNED_PASSWORDS’ you can find all 370 passwords that you can’t use. Hit more to see the passwords.
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Seems like Myspace addon on site rockyou.com fell victim to sql injection flaw and exposed more than 32 millions of passwords in plaintext.
http://igigi.baywords.com/rockyou-com-exposed-more-than-32-millions-of-passwords-in-plaintext/

If you have forgot your Windows 7 homegroup password, then this will show you how to view or print it to see what it is again. You must have this password to be able to join a computer to your homegroup.

HomeGroup makes it easy to share pictures, music, documents, videos, and printers with other people on your home network. You would have had to created a homegroup first before you will have a password to use to join other computer to your homegroup.

1. Open the Control Panel (all items view), and click on the Network and Sharing Center icon.
2. Click on the Choose homegroup and sharing options link.
3. Click on the View or print homegroup password link.
4. Write down this password down, or click on Print this page to print the passoword. When done, close this window.

NOTE: The password is case sensitive, so it will need to be typed exactly as it appears here when used to join a computer to the homegroup.

If you’re one of the many who are jailbreaking your iPhone to get options such as tethering, make sure you change the root access password once you do.
In addition to your possibly getting Rick-Rolled

Your jailbroken phone could possibly be held for ransom

If you’ve never changed the default device password, now’s the time. Here’s how:

The app to use on the iPhone is called MobileTerminal and it’s available for free in the Cydia store.

Once you have MobileTerminal installed, launch it and you should see a prompt saying this or similar:

iPhoneName: ~ Mobile$

• At that prompt, type: passwd
• You’ll be prompted for the ‘old’ (current) password for the mobile user.  Enter this as the old password: alpine
• You’ll then be prompted to enter the new password – so just type in your desired new password.  Use good password principles if possible (long and stong).  You will not see characters appearing on the screen as you type – that’s normal, not a concern.
• You’ll then be prompted to re-enter the new password.  Do that.
• You should then be returned to the Mobile$ prompt that you started on when opening the MobileTerminal app.  There’s no success message to say the password was changed – but if you’re returned to the prompt and do not get an error, the change was successful.  And you’re done with change for the mobile account.
• The second primary admin account for the iPhone is called root – so now you need to change that as well.
• Type this to switch to the root user: login root
• You’ll be prompted for the root user’s current password.  Enter this: alpine
• Type this to start the password change routine again: passwd
• Enter the old password for root (it is ‘alpine’, same as for the mobile user) and enter your desired new password twice, just as you did for the mobile account

Security tube has a nice video on how to gain domain admin access from a workstation using some simple tools

http://securitytube.net/How-to-own-a-Windows-Domain-video.aspx