ElcomSoft Claims 1 Billion Passwords/Sec Recovery; Uses GPUs in Parallel
Distributes tasks to multiple NVIDIA video accelerators

ElcomSoft has released a new version its Distributed Password Recovery program for recovering system and document passwords at speeds of up to 1 billion passwords per second. (more…)

Introduction

This tutorial walks you through cracking WPA/WPA2 networks which use pre-shared keys. I recommend you do some background reading to better understand what WPA/WPA2 is. The Wiki links page has a WPA/WPA2 section. he best document describing WPA is Wi-Fi Security – WEP, WPA and WPA2. This is the link to download the PDF directly. The WPA Packet Capture Explained tutorial is a companion to this tutorial.
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Synopsis

The password checking routine of DriveCrypt fails to sanitize the BIOS keyboard buffer before AND after reading passwords.

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How can you prevent a Palin webmail hack from happening to you? The short answer: you can’t.

Yahoo has no immediate plans to overhaul its e-mail security procedures after a hacker last week gained access to Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo Mail account, the company said Monday. Instead, it is reviewing security processes on an industry-wide basis.

Yahoo Mail isn’t the only Web-based mail service that could be duped into giving up someone else’s account password, the tactic that some have argued was used to break into Gov. Sarah Palin’s e-mail earlier this week.

Google Inc.’s Gmail, Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo Inc.’s Mail all rely on automated password-reset mechanisms that can be abused by anyone who knows the username associated with an account and an answer to a single security question, according to quick tests run by Computerworld.
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A trio of German software firms claims to have developed a password system that prevents Trojans and viruses from stealing passwords from a Windows machine.

The “Trojan-proof” virtual keyboard software, which was developed by Global IP Telecommunications, PMC Ciphers, and CyProtect AG, is available in a free beta version for download.

“This development can make input of PIN codes and transaction numbers for online banking completely safe in the near future,” said C.B. Roellgen, creator of the password dialog and CTO of PMC Ciphers, in a statement.
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Features:
» Runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, …
» Cracks LM and NTLM hashes.
» Free tables available for Windows XP and Vista.
» Brute-force module for simple passwords.
» LiveCD available to simplify the cracking.
» Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition, Vista included.
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If you wanna backup your user password here is the best way:

For this you have to create a Password Reset Disk. If you are running WIndows XP Pro as a local user in a workgroup enviroment, you can create a password reset disk to logon to your computer when you forget the password. The way is depicted below:

* Click Start|click Control Panel and select User Accounts
* Click on your Account Name
* Under Related Tasks, click on Prevent a forgotten option
* Now follow the instruction in the wizard to create a password reset disk

Caution: Store this disk in a secure location as anyone can access your machine by this disk

Every browser released in the last decade has some sort of password management system, and Google Chrome is no different. Sift through the Chrome source code, released under the open source project Chromium, and you’ll found out how they do it.

Let’s start at the top and work our way down. Any time a password is saved, you’re first prompted with the save password bar.
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Valve is a game software company who makes popular software titles such as Half-Life and Counterstrike and distributes them through a program called Steam. It’s passwords are are encrypted with AES encryption using a key from a combination of 3 concatenated registry keys:
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