ElcomSoft, a company specializing in password recovery and information security technologies and algorithms, has confirmed an impressive feat - their Distributed Password Recovery tool is the first to recover passwords for Numbers, Pages and Keynote apps.
Today ElcomSoft confirmed that the company could at the momen... |
9 February 2012
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Google has introduced a very clever way of making sure that you don't get locked out of your account and that someone else doesn't lock you out either. If you try to login with an older password after you've changed it, you'll be notified that there's a new one and you can take steps if an er... |
7 December 2011
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Networking equipment manufacturer Allied Telesis has accidentally leaked an internal support document describing backdoors into its devices.The document, which was labeled as "INTERNAL ONLY," was inadvertently made public on its website and subsequently indexed by Google.The question answered in it was "How do I obta... |
30 May 2011
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German security researchers have demonstrated that passwords stored on a stolen or lost iPhone can be retrieved in around six minutes even if the device is locked. Researchers Jens Heider and Matthias Boll from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (SIT) have published a paper [pdf] and a video ... |
10 February 2011
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Microsoft has introduced new features to Hotmail to make it easier for users to regain control of compromised accounts and prevent attackers from hijacking them in the first place.Email addresses are one of the most critical accounts Internet user have, especially since most people don't delete messages containi... |
28 September 2010
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After the release of the new 2.8.3 security update, WordPress faces a dangerous vulnerability that can lock out blog owners from their admin account. Using the online password reset function, hackers can remotely reset the admin password.This issue was first reported by Laurent Gaffie on August 11 in a mailing l... |
11 August 2009
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One of the ways to make sure that your work is protected is to use as a distribution mode the PDF format provided by Adobe, together with the security options it offers. And when I say security options, I mean setting a user and owner password or attaching a digital certificate – as always, good in theory, but ... |
8 May 2009
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Password recovery vendor ElcomSoft claims that its software can crack PDF passwords in Acrobat 9 a hundred times faster than in previous versions. Adobe agrees that optimizations brought to the opening time of PDF files in version 9 of its Acrobat product could decrease the time required to brute force weak passwords... |
3 December 2008
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A newly patented, revolutionary crack technique is able to smash through in excess of 55 trillion (that's 52 to the eighth power) pseudo-random Windows Vista logon passwords made up of eight characters in no time at all. Well, actually in three to five days. But the period is close to nothing as a now traditiona... |
14 November 2007
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