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With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack

With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crackWell obviously if they have the password the encryption is irrelevant. ntntThis is NOT a tradeoff, it's POOR designWPA Pre-Shared Key PSK mode for 802.11 uses a hundred rounds of hashing to protect the user's PSK and it's plenty fast for...

Tags: password, Acrobat 9 password, encryption, Acrobat 9, PSK, Adobe Acrobat

Discussion threads 2008-12-04

Vendor claims Acrobat 9 passwords easier to crack than ever

Vendor claims Acrobat 9 passwords easier to crack than everHow long does the password need to be?Question for Elcomsoft: how long does the password need to be before the differences between 8 & 9 become negligible?For each character that you add to the passwordThe time it takes to crack is...

Tags: password, Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat 9, Acrobat 9 password

Discussion threads 2008-12-02

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Passware Kit Enterprise 9.5 (Windows)

Passware Kit Enterprise recovers all kinds of lost or forgotten passwords for the world's most popular office-application files, including Excel, Word, Windows 2003/XP/2K/NT (both local and domain-administrator accounts), Lotus Notes, RAR, WinZip, Access, Outlook, Acrobat, Quicken, QuickBooks, WordPerfect, and VBA. All versions of MS Office are supported, including the most...

Tags: Password, IBM Lotus Notes, WinZip, Microsoft Windows, IBM Corp., Passware, Passware Kit Enterprise, Lotus Notes Key Module, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Office Suites

Software downloads 2009-11-24

Recover PDF Password 2.3.0.60 (Windows)

Recover PDF Password is a PDF password recovery tool by Eltima Software, which recovers passwords of PDF files if they were lost or forgotten. It can recover both owner password, which prevents opening a PDF file and user password, which protects information in PDF from being printed, copied or edited....

Tags: Password, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Eltima Software

Software downloads 2009-11-12

Recover PDF Password 2.1.0.99 (Mac)

Eltima Recover PDF Password for Mac is a very useful application used to search for a password of password-protected PDF documents. Recover PDF Password allows to search for "owner" and "user" passwords with brute-force attack, effectively optimized for speed. No matter if your password-protected PDF document is old or new,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Password, Adobe PDF, Eltima Software

Software downloads 2009-07-29

Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains high

Secunia: Average insecure program per PC rate remains highGeneralizations are always bad ;)I see Secunia quoted as saying "Failing to do so is playing Russian Roulette with your IT security ? it is only a question about time ? and luck ? when your system will be compromised."Yes, patching is...

Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, PC, Secunia PSI, Secunia, insecure program

Discussion threads 2009-06-25

ZDNet Readers' Choice: Top 25 free, lightweight apps

In February, I asked ZDNet readers for the free, lightweight applications they simply can't live without. After tallying the suggestions in the comments and via e-mail -- and there were an awful lot of good suggestions, believe me -- here are the 25 most popular. ...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Open Source, Site, Evernote, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-25

Reader poll: Best free lightweight apps?

Reader poll: Best free lightweight apps?A few Light AppsVLCFoxit ReaderFilezillaIceChatQuicktime AlternativeIZArc...everything else is rather heavy.Joeycan't live without ....starup.cpl .......!!!!!http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtmlRE: Reader poll: Best free lightweight apps?THE best free lightweight app of all-time has got to be Irfanview:http://www.irfanview.comThe swiss army knife of images.RE: Reader poll: Best free lightweight apps?Definitely as...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, lightweight app, Reader Poll

Discussion threads 2009-02-19

Guaranteed PDF Decrypter 3.0a (Mac)

Guaranteed PDF Decrypter is a command-line utility which allows you to instantly remove various operation restrictions on PDF files, such as printing and editing (even with 256-bit key). Guaranteed PDF Decrypter also can decrypt PDF files with password for opening with guarantee, no matter what the length of the password...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Password, Adobe PDF, PSW-soft, Guaranteed PDF Decrypter

Software downloads 2009-01-03

News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-05

With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack

Following ElcomSoft's claim that despite the 256-bit encryption Acrobat 9 passwords are susceptible to more efficient brute forcing than Acrobat 8 passwords -- a claim that Adobe confirmed citing usability trade-offs and urged users to take advantage of its improved passphrase mechanisms -- ElcomSoft's Dmitry Sklyarov and Vladimir Katalov provide...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Adobe Acrobat, Encryption, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Vendor claims Acrobat 9 passwords easier to crack than ever

Password recovery software vendor ElcomSoft claims that the password verification mechanism in the new Adobe Acrobat 9 is weaker than the one used in the previous version of Adobe's product, thereby allowing them to improve the brute forcing speed a hundred times faster. The company's claim comes right after Adobe's...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Password, Passphrase, Adobe Acrobat, ElcomSoft, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-12-02

Parallel Password Recovery (PDF module) 1.0.10 (Windows)

Parallel PDF Password recovery is an utility for recover lost passwords of PDF documents. Supports RC4 and AES algorithms with 128 or 256 bit keys. Local SMP version can use up to 4 processors/cores of your home PC. Distributed version can vectorize the recovery process on clients workstations on your...

Tags: Password, Recovery, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, Parallel Password Recovery

Software downloads 2008-11-11

News to know: Adobe; Apple; Facebook; Microsoft security

Notable headlines: Zack Whittaker: Students try to bring down Facebook Dancho Danchev: Microsoft's CAPTCHA successfully broken Ryan Naraine: Microsoft issues Safari-to-IE blended threat warning Obama looking for help thwarting Web site hackers Chinese female hacking group spotted ActiveX...

Tags: Security, Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Virtualization, Fuel Cells, Utility Computing, Hardware, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-02

Yes to "Download signed ActiveX controls" (Installing Web plug-ins as a Vista non-administrative user)

Yes to "Download signed ActiveX controls" (Installing Web plug-ins as a Vista non-administrative user)Screenshot 9 description errorScreenshot 9 (Security Settings - Internet Zone) has an error in its description regarding "Download signed ActiveX controls." Your description says "It was disabled by default." This is false. The IE...

Tags: Web, Microsoft Windows Vista, Authenticode, Authenticode dialog, UAC, ActiveX Control, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Discussion threads 2007-02-21

U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste

U.S. military security defeated by copy and pasteYou think people would learn from mistakesThis was a problem with passwords. If you had a saved password showing up like "******" you could copy and paste it into notepad to reveal the password. This was fixed. You think they'd have learned from...

Tags: security, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Corp., U.S. military security, password, Saddam

Discussion threads 2005-05-04

MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled ADDITION & SUBTRACTION for Special Learners 2.9 (Windows)

MATH DITTOS 2: Fact Controlled ADDITION & SUBTRACTION for Special Learners is a remedial, "ground-up" reteach of addition and subtraction. Addition & subtraction facts are presented in "Clusters," including the fact and its complement. Practice problems are controlled, or limited, to the clusters shown on each page, allowing for review...

Tags: Adobe PDF, Student, Microsoft Windows, Computer, Steven L. Wood Publications, Fact, Subtraction Fact, MD2:FCA&SfSpL, Productivity

Software downloads 2000-06-15