ethicalhacker.net — 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. Very well done.
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sockpuppetsNov 8, 2006
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eplawlessNov 8, 2006
If there is a mechanism to do so then yes, do it. If the information is made widely available steps will be taken to ensure its obsolescence.
jak119Nov 8, 2006
is it just me or is the site down?
dacheetahNov 8, 2006
I've played with ophcrack, and it's scary fast at cracking Windows passwords.I showed my dad, and it cracked his all lowercase 7 character password in less than a minute. The only reason I havn't used it at uni is because I don't feel like working on getting the machine to boot from a CD, since the bios has been set not to boot from anything but the HDD, and is password protected. While I'm sure that's easy enough to get around, it's enough of a deterrent that I couldn't be bothered... At least at the moment...
matthewaaronNov 8, 2006
Yawn...
numarcNov 8, 2006
In most offices just look for a post-it on the monitor or under the keyboard
c0d3rNov 22, 2006
Completely worthless information.The game is over when the attacker has the password hashes. The game is over when the attacker has sufficient access and privileges to retrieve the hashes.Don't write or link to articles about password cracking. It flashes a giant neon LAME sign over your head.
diemanJan 5, 2007
A good part of the article is plagiarized (and inaccurately copied) from others work. Compare the first section (which should have been a citation instead) to this:<a class="user" href="http://www1.umn.edu/oit/security/passwordattackdiscussion.html">http://www1.umn.edu/oit/security/passwordattackdiscussion.html</a>
tannpopoOct 21, 2009
here is the methods I know.The first thing which you check if you forget login password. When we install Windows, it automatically creates an account "Administrator" and sets its password to blank. So if you have forget Your user account password then try this:Start system and when you See Windows Welcome screen / Login screen, press ctrl+alt+del keys Twice and it'll show Classic Login box. Now type "Administrator" (without quotes) in Username and leave Password field blank. Now press Enter and you should be able to log in Windows.Now you can reset your account password from "Control Panel -> User Accounts".Same thing can be done using Safe Mode. In Safe Mode Windows will show this in-built Administrator account in Login screen.Windows XP and further versions also provide another method to recover forgotten Password by using "Reset Disk". If you created a Password Reset Disk in Past, you can use that disk to reset the password. To know more about It, please visit <a class="user" href="http://www.resetwindowspassword.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.resetwindowspassword.com/</a>
zatinkerMar 2, 2010
Try to use a windows password recovery tool to bypass windows password <a class="user" href="http://www.anypasswordrecovery.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.anypasswordrecovery.com/</a> ,it need not to reinstall or reformat the windows OS, with no data lose,by using "Any Windows Password Recovery 3.0 ",its easier.
killytuJan 6, 2011
You can create a Windows password reset bootable CD/DVD or USB flash drive to reset forgotten Windows password, i have created a bootable USB flash drive with the tool Windows Password Breaker http://www.recoverwindowspassword.com/ and reset my administrator password successfully.