Posts Tagged with 'Password'

December 31, 2007

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RockXP: Free tool to recover Microsoft product keys and system passwords

RockXP is a free password recovery software that’s more like a swiss army knife with multiple password and product key recovery features. Of course, there are dozens of similar password recovery programs doing same job but this one seems to have gone few steps ahead of the rest. Let’s look at the features of this free tool. Recover Microsoft product keys and XP serial key from the registry and even change the XP key if you want to. Remember, this

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December 26, 2006

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A Guide to Better and Secure Passwords for Your Accounts

Almost everyone of us who uses Internet has at least one online account that requires a username and password. While some of us choose to use complicated passwords, others give least importance to it. Every now and then many websites surfaces on Internet with loads of new services and requires that you to register with them to be able to use their services. A few days ago, I sat down thinking about different websites with whom I had an account

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Posted in: Internet | Tools/Utils | Unix/Linux | Windows

November 13, 2006

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Phishing: Basics of Phishing and Preventive Measures

Phishing is a kind of activity through which phishers [an attacker] make attempts to obtain sensitive information such as your credit card details, passwords of your mailbox or bank account by pretending to be from a legitimate source. Phishing can be both socially and technically engineered. A person pretending to be from a bank and asking for your account information for regular maintenance is an example of socially engineered phishing. Where as, an email which seems to have come from

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