Extremely impressed at the ease and speed with which the Ophcrack Live CD cracks windows passwords.
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method.
Microsoft may be the biggest target out there for hackers. Here’s what the company does to protect itself from the continuous onslaught of probes and intrusion attempts.
Security mentor, Chris Gates, completely rewrote his popular article on cracking Windows PWs. Starting with the basics and continuing all the way through the process of exactly how to do it, this impressive article has to be one of the definitive works on password cracking.
The code, which was posted on the Internet early Sunday morning, could be used to disable the Windows Firewall on a fully patched Windows XP PC that was running Windows’ Internet Connection Service (ICS).
Botnet software installs its own anti-virus engine. Security experts have discovered new spambot software that installs its own anti-virus scanner to eliminate competition, alongside a number of other sophisticated features.
The USB Hacksaw is an evolution of the popular USB Switchblade that will automatically infect Windows PCs with a payload that will retrieve documents from USB drives plugged into the target machine and securely transmit them to an email account.
PoC shows how to deliver the payload instantly with a U3 autorun hack borrowed from the Switchblade
Researchers have simulated what would happen to Internet reliability in the United States if terrorists were able to knock out various physical components of the network. The good news is that it would be very difficult to cause major disruptions across the country, although destruction of some key parts could seriously degrade Internet quality.
This guide from PC Magazine teaches you about installing a second operating system on your iPod.
“In a day where browsers are coming out with anti-phishing tactics, I can’t believe how many people still fall for phishing. It’s all over the news, and most email clients display warnings. So when I got an email from “admin@MySpace.com” I kind of chuckled.”