[ad] The same old story, if you ask people for something they will most likely give it without thinking of the consequences.. Even more so if you are a pretty girl, and in this case you offer someone chocolate. Hey who doesn’t love chocolate? I have to say I don’t love it enough to give […]
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PwdHash from Stanford – Generate Passwords by Hashing the URL
[ad] The Common Password Problem. Users tend to use a single password at many different web sites. By now there are several reported cases where attackers breaks into a low security site to retrieve thousands of username/password pairs and directly try them one by one at a high security e-commerce site such as eBay. As […]
Medusa Password Cracker Version 1.1 Now Available For Download
Medusa is a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer for network services created by the geeks at Foofus.net. It currently has modules for the following services: CVS, FTP, HTTP, IMAP, MS-SQL, MySQL, NCP (NetWare), PcAnywhere, POP3, PostgreSQL, rexec, rlogin, rsh, SMB, SMTP (VRFY), SNMP, SSHv2, SVN, Telnet, VmAuthd, VNC, and a generic wrapper module. While […]
Microsoft Shelves Support for RSA SecurID in Vista
[ad] Switchback? For the worst? Aww Microsoft would never compromise our security for the sake of convenience or their profit line right? Microsoft has shelved plans to include native support for RSA’s SecurID tokens in Windows Vista, even though the company has been trialling the technology for almost two years. In February 2004, Microsoft chairman […]
Photos as Visual Passwords Could Foil Hackers?
I’ve tried out a few of these visual recognition password technique things, and to tell you the truth they didn’t work for me, not at all. I clicked the requisite 3-4 spots on the image, and remembered them, but when I tried to login it wouldn’t accept it. A password that uses images instead of […]