ElcomSoft Co. Ltd. puts ATI and NVIDIA hardware to work accelerating the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords. The newly released Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor 1.0 benefits from the ability of
last-generation video cards manufactured by ATI and NVIDIA to munch numbers
faster, allowing its users to recover Wi-Fi passwords faster than ever before.
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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

Someone hacked into Twitter’s internal admin tools and compromising 33 high profile accounts, including President Elect Barack Obama,Fox News,and Britney Spears.

Here is Twitter’s official explanation.

The password was obtained by a bruteforce method using a wordlist only because Twitter didnt have lockout mechanism for their admin login, and the cracker was able to keep trying new passwords until he got into an admin account of Crystal,who’d chosen the weak password “happiness.”

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.

If you lost or forgot your PSP password, here’s what u need to do:

You can restore the PSP to the default factory settings to reset the password to 0000. To restore the settings:

1. Highlight (System Settings) under (Settings) from the home menu, and press .

2. Select Restore Default Settings and follow the on-screen instructions.

Note: If you restore the settings to reset the password, on you’r psp other settings will also be lost. Once these settings are lost, they cannot be recovered and you will have to manually set them again.

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.

Dialupass is one of the oldest nirsoft utilities for extracting dialup passwords.
The newer beta has one useful new feature: You can now extract the dialup passwords from an external instance of Windows 2000/XP/2003 (In Advanced Options).

Dialupass 3 is not officially released yet, but you can download a Beta version from here.

The new version of LsaSecretsView from nirsoft allows you to extract the LSA secrets from an external instance of Windows operating system. This feature can be useful if you have a dead system that cannot boot anymore.
You can use this feature from the user-interface, by using the ‘Advanced Options’ in the File
menu, or from command-line, by using the /external parameter.
This feature was also added to LSASecretsDump, which is the console version of LsaSecretsView.

Be aware the currently this feature works for Windows 2000/XP/2003, but not for Windows Vista.

BFG is a brute-force password generator for thc-hydra, which doesn’t have a brute-force module in the original version, and can only perform dictionary attacks.
BFG adds this functionality to hydra, possibly making it a better tool for security testing/hacking.
http://bfg.houbysoft.com/