March 29th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Auditing password security level is important to have an idea if the system is secure or not, sometimes system administrators forget about using the secure password and leave it weak to remember it later, this is not good practice. To check Mysql password security or recover a lost one you can use MysqlPasswordAuditor, this tool [...]
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Tags: Mysql, Password Hacking, Password recovery, Password Security, penetration testing, Pentesting, Tools 
1 Comment » March 10th, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Google chrome is now widely used for navigating online resources, chrome as any web browser allows to store passwords to help users automate their online authentication, this is good as a functionality but from the security prospective this enable hacker to get all stored passwords. Chrome Password Decryptor is a free application that you can [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Pentesting, Tools Tags: Password Hacking, Password recovery, Pentesting, Tools 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 14 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 [...]
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