FireMaster version 2.1 has been released with its new features and new speed. Firemaster is the Firefox master password recovery tool. If you have forgotten the master password, then using FireMaster you can find out the master password and get back your lost signon information. It uses various methods such as dictionary, hybrid and brute […]
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The Top 10 Most Common Passwords
A pretty interesting article that statistically measured the frequency of passwords by taking an aggregate sample of passwords (primarily from the UK). Here are listed the most commonly occurring from the sample. 10. ‘thomas’ (0.99%) First off, at number 10, is the most common format of passwords – the name. Thomas is a perennially popular […]
Oracle Releases a Default Password Scanner
Oracle is getting serious with security? Again..? Oracle Corp. has published a collection of software patches that address security vulnerabilities in a range of the company’s products, including its database and application server software. As part of this update, it also released a tool designed to ferret out commonly used default passwords that theoretically could […]
Symantec Dumps L0phtcrack Password Cracker
Man this blows. It seems it happened quite a while ago, I only just found out about it recently though when I was checking to see if L0phtcrack had been updated past version 5. Symantec has quietly pulled the plug on sales of L0phtCrack, the venerable password auditing and recovery application. The decision to discontinue […]
Top 15 Security Utilities & Download Hacking Tools
This is a list of some of the most common hacking tools, security utilities with direct links for the most relevant (like ethereal hacking) and best to download hacking tools. Download Hacking Tools Below 1. Nmap I think everyone has heard of this one, recently evolved into the 4.x series. Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a […]