February 10th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Elcomsoft have just updated EDRP tool to support the Apple iWork program, now it is possible using this update to recover iWork security passoword and read the document without loosing any information or data. The encryption used by iWork is AES 128-bit key that makes it almost impossible to crack , but this software work [...]
June 4th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua New version of John The Ripper has been released, John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. Initially developed for the UNIX operating system, it currently runs on fifteen different platforms (11 architecture-specific flavors of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS). It is one of the most popular password testing/breaking programs as it [...]
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59 Comments » May 9th, 2010 Mourad Ben Lakhoua There are several method for recovering email password locally, you can search the configuration file manually or using different applications but in most cases the password is encrypted which can make it hard to decrypt. Some password recovery applications do not work with the antiviruses such as Openpass ,Passview or Recover. Here is a good [...]
December 3rd, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Passware Company has introduced the first commercial software solution that offer a way to Crack files encrypted by BitLocker system. Microsoft released this advanced tool for a full hard drive encryption system and it has integrated it in windows Vista and made it also available on Windows 7 and Windows Server2008. We already listed on [...]
Posted in Pentesting Tags: Encryption, Forensics, Microsoft, Passware Kit Forensic 9.5, Password recovery, Security 12 Comments » November 4th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua David Campbell a security consultant made a study regarding password safety. the research has been based on the cost evaluation of cracking password with a paid service by Amazon EC2 web service. The security expert found that for cracking 12 character password that is based on lowercase letters “a” and “z”, hackers would need to [...]
Posted in News, Password Security Tags: Cloud computing, Passowrd Hacking, Password recovery, Password Security 7 Comments » September 21st, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua USB Switchblade is a tool that can help you to be a king on the enemies’ land. Hack5 USB Switchblade is the second name for this tool but this does not change anything. The project consists of several software packages that do a great job for password grabbing and pentesting: Dump SAM is made for [...]
August 15th, 2009 Mourad Ben Lakhoua VPN (Virtual private network) is often used for securing communication over the public network, many security specialists advice to use it in the public Wi-Fi to encrypt all traffic and make it impossible for outsider to sniff information or to provide a remote access to an offsite user, but after implementing the VPN connection there [...]
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