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Who, what & why
The background on the who, the what and the why of Have I been pwned?
Early last year, password security researcher Kevin Young was hitting a brick wall. Over the previous few weeks, he made steady progress decoding cryptographically protected password data leaked from the then-recent hack of intelligence firm Stratfor. But with about 60 percent of the more than 860,000 password hashes cracked, his attempts to decipher the remaining 40 percent were failing.
Almost immediately, a flood of once-stubborn passwords revealed themselves. They included: "Am i ever gonna see your face again?" (36 characters), "in the beginning was the word" (29 characters), "from genesis to revelations" (26), "I cant remember anything" (24), "thereisnofatebutwhatwemake" (26), "givemelibertyorgivemedeath" (26), and "eastofthesunwestofthemoon" (25).
The most important aspect of a user account system is how user passwords are protected. User account databases are hacked frequently, so you absolutely must do something to protect your users' passwords if your website is ever breached. The best way to protect passwords is to employ salted password hashing. This page will explain how to do it properly.
NirSoft web site provides a unique collection of small and useful freeware utilities, all of them developed by Nir Sofer.
Here's some examples of what you can find in NirSoft Web site:
Password Recovery Utilities
WebBrowserPassView - View the passwords stored by your Web browser (Supports Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera)
Mail PassView - Recover the passwords of popular email clients: Outlook Express, MS Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird , and more...
MessenPass - Recover the passwords of instant messenger programs: Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, Trillian, and more...
Dialupass: Dialup Password Recovery - Recovers the passwords of dialup entries (VPN and Internet connections). Works also under Windows 2000/XP.
Network Password Recovery - Freeware utility that recovers the network passwords stored by Windows XP (Credentials file).
Asterisk Logger - Reveal the passwords hidden behind asterisk ('****') characters in standard password text-boxes.
SniffPass - Password Sniffer - Listen to your network, and capture POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, FTP, and HTTP (basic authentication) passwords
PstPassword - Recover the password of Outlook PST file.
Protected Storage PassView - Displays all passwords and AutoComplete strings stored in your Protected Storage.
Network Monitoring Tools
NetResView - View all computers/shares on your network.
WirelessNetView - View the details of all wireless network in your area (SSID, Signal Quality, MAC Address, and more...)
BluetoothView - Monitor the Bluetooth activity around you.
SmartSniff: TCP/IP Sniffer - Capture TCP/IP packets on your network adapter and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers.
CurrPorts: TCP/IP Connections Viewer - Freeware tool that displays the list of all currently opened TCP and UDP ports on your local computer.
AdapterWatch - displays useful information about your network adapters: IP addresses, Hardware address, WINS servers, DNS servers, MTU value, Number of bytes received or sent, The current transfer speed, and more...
DownTester - Test the download speed of your Internet connection.
Internet Related Utilities
IPNetInfo - Find all available information about an IP address: The owner of the IP address, the country/state name, IP addresses range, contact information (address, phone, fax, and email), and more.
MyLastSearch - View your latest searches with Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
VideoCacheView - Copy video files (.flv and others) from the Web browser cache and temporary folder.
WebVideoCap - Capture Flash video (.flv) and RTSP/MMS streams from Video Web sites.
SiteShoter - Take a screenshot of a Web site.
DNSDataView - View the DNS records of specified domains.
IECookiesView: Cookies Viewer/Manager for IE - View/Delete/Modify the cookies that Internet Explorer stores on your computer. Read More >>
IEHistoryView - View/Delete the URLs that you visited in the last few days.
HTMLAsText (HTML To Text Converter) - Freeware utility that converts HTML files to text files.
WhoisThisDomain - Get information about a registered domain.
DNSDataView - DNS lookup tool.
MS-Outlook Tools
NK2Edit - Edit, delete, add, merge, and repair records in the AutoComplete files (.NK2) of Outlook.
OutlookAttachView - View and extract attachments in your Outlook mailbox.
OutlookStatView - Get statistics about your Outlook mailbox.
OutlookAddressBookView - View / export the address book of MS-Outlook.
Command-Line Utilities
NirCmd: Freeware Command-Line Tool - Do some useful tasks from command-line: turn off your monitor, turn off the computer, open/close the door of your cd-rom drive, dial to VPN/Internet connection, change your display settings, and much more !!
Desktop Utilities
SearchMyFiles - Alternative to 'Search For Files And Folders' module of Windows and also duplicate files search.
MyUninstaller - Alternative to the standard Add/Remove applet of Windows operating system.
Volumouse - Control the sound volume with your wheel mouse !!
FileTypesMan - Alternative to 'File Types' manager of Windows.
Freeware System Tools
ProduKey - Recover Office/Windows CD-Key
ShellExView - Displays the details of shell extensions installed on your computer, and allows you to easily disable and enable each shell extension.
WhatInStartup - Add, delete, modify or disable programs that run at Windows startup.
USBDeview - View all installed/connected USB devices on your system.
DevManView - Alternative to device manager of Windows.
DriverView - List all device drivers currently loaded on your Windows.
RegScanner (Registry Scanner) - Scan and find values in the Registry.
OpenedFilesView - View opened/locked files in your system.
SysExporter - Grab the data stored in standard list-views, list boxes, and combo boxes from almost any application running on your system, and export it to text, HTML or XML file.
BlueScreenView - View crash information stored in the MiniDump files created on blue screen of Windows.
Is your password weaker than you thought?
To help you find out, the Telepathwords weak-password prevention system will try to guess each character of your password before you type it.
✘
indicates that the character you typed was one of Telepathwords guesses.
✔
indicates that the character you typed was one Telepathwords could not guess.
If your password has few characters that Telepathwords could not guess, attackers may also find your password easy to guess.
Close the workbook and open the workbook file in the hex editor.
Find the string "DPB" and change it to "DPx" (x is in small letter).
Save the file.
Open the workbook and click OK until the workbook is open (one or more dialogs are displayed describing various problems with the VBA project).
Press ALT+F11, choose the menu command Tools->VBAProject Properties, navigate to the Protection tab, and change the password but do not remove it (note the new password).
Save, close, and re-open the workbook.
Press ALT+F11 and enter the new password.
Choose Tools->VBAProject Properties, navigate to the Protection tab, and remove the password. Save the workbook.
Now open the same workbook, You can use the password that you already
given.
Using secure passwords is an important step to ensure that your personal data and online identity cannot be compromised. Find out how secure your password is with our online testing application. The Estatis Password Security Checker evaluates the strength of your current password and offers suggestions about possible attack vectors.
Recent studies have shown that up to 65% of computer attacks and security threats online could be prevented by using strong, secure passwords. However, it is easy to be mistaken about password security. The Estatis Password Security Checker offers a independent and thorough analysis to find out whether your online information is secure or not.
1,493,677,782 words
It’s a mix of
every wordlist, dictionary, and password database leak
every word in the Wikipedia databases (pages-articles, retrieved 2010, all languages)
as well as lots of books from Project Gutenberg
also includes the passwords from some low-profile database breaches that were being sold in the underground years ago