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ZIP Key 6.5 (Windows)

ZIP Key recovers passwords for ZIP archives created with WinZip, PKZIP, or any other ZIP-compatible software. Forgetting a password for an archive created a long time ago is a common annoyance. ZIP Key helps you get your data back. Brute Force, Xieve, Known Plaintext, or Dictionary attacks are used to...

Tags: Password, Microsoft Windows, Passware, Brute Force Attack, Dictionary Attack Support, SureZip Recovery

Software downloads 2004-07-27

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ZIP RAR ACE Password Recovery 2.00.09 (Windows)

ZIP RAR ACE Password Recovery is a program to recover lost or forgotten passwords on ZIP, RAR and ACE archives. Key Features: Unlimited Password Length; RAR 2.x and 3.x; RAR archives with encrypted Filenames Support; Multi-volume RAR archives; ZIP Archives Support; ACE Archives Support; SFX Archives Support; Brute-Force attack; Mask...

Tags: Password, Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Attack, Keylack Software, Security

Software downloads 2009-11-11

KRyLack Password Recovery 3.0.09 (Windows)

KRyLack Password Recovery is a program to recover lost or forgotten passwords on ZIP, RAR and ACE archives. Features: The program has a convenient user interface; Drag-and-Drop is supported; The program can work with archives containing only one encrypted file; RAR Archives (All versions including v3.x) are supported; RAR Archives...

Tags: Password, Recovery, Microsoft Windows, Character, Attack, KRyLack Software, KRyLack Password Recovery, Password Length

Software downloads 2009-11-04

Apple forecast: 12% Mac sales growth quarter to quarter

Apple forecast: 12% Mac sales growth quarter to quarterdeclinig"with commercial Mac shipments up 25% [month over month] in May versus market growth of just 1%" if the broad market is up 1% and apple's 25% growth is part of that 1% number, than that means that the windows-pc market is...

Tags: Sales strategy, Blu-ray, Desktops, Notebooks, Mac sales growth quarter, growth quarter, Apple Inc., Mac sale, PC, Apple Macintosh, sales

Discussion threads 2009-07-01

Dangerous Microsoft DirectX vulnerability under attack

Dangerous Microsoft DirectX vulnerability under attackOne of Us Misread the ArticleQuote1: "... to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in DirectShow, the APIs used by Windows programs for multimedia support."Quote2: "Also, we?ve verified that it is possible to direct calls to DirectShow specifically, even if Apple?s QuickTime which is not vulnerable is...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital music, Web browsers, SECURITY, Microsoft Corp., sandbox, Apple QuickTime, Dangerous Microsoft DirectX vulnerability, Dangerous Microsoft DirectX, vulnerability, DirectShow, Microsoft Windows Vista, attack, Microsoft Internet

Discussion threads 2009-05-28

PCI security standard endangers wireless LANs

PCI security standard endangers wireless LANsI see no problem with SSID hidingThe real problem is that the SSID probe request contains enough information to facilitate offline cracking.The SSID probe request will always be there, if it's insecure, then make it secure!Users will always use urban legend security sometimes in addition...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Retail, LANs, SSID, PCI, security, wireless, wireless lan, LAN, retail company, PCI security standard

Discussion threads 2008-03-11

Design flaw in wireless VoIP handsets endanger the enterprise

Update 2/23/2008 - Cisco confirms vulnerability in 7921 Wi-Fi IP phone Security conscious businesses and organizations who implemented 802.1x/EAP enterprise-grade authentication are at risk with certain implementations of wireless LAN VoIP handsets.  I have verified that Vocera Communications is one of the vulnerable vendors and I have...

Tags: VoIP, Password, WPA-PSK, Handset, Authentication, Character, Wireless, Flaw, PEAP, Badge, WPA-PSK Mode, PSK, Security, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-20

Trojan attack targets top executives

Trojan attack targets top executivesYou don't have to run OfficeYou can run OpenOffice, Word Perfect, or the new Lotus Symphony, all of which do not support these types of attacks.Or you can run Office on a Mac and have all of 10 viruses/malware vs. the MILLIONS for Windows.However, maybe once...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Microsoft Windows, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Trojan Attack, trojan horse, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-09-25

Did Skype just change my password without warning?

Did Skype just change my password without warning?Passwords hacked? Or simply reset?If the outage caused damage to the password files on Skype's systems, those passwords may have been "reset" to their defaults probably meaning no password. Hopefully, Skype has recent backups.I had to do a repair-reinstall of XP...

Tags: eBay Inc., password, Skype Technologies S.A.

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Why VPN can't replace Wi-Fi security

Every time the subject of wireless LAN security comes up, people ask me about VPN as a solution for securing Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi is the common marketing name for 802.11 wireless LANs). Ive always told people that VPN security shouldnt be a substitute for good Wi-Fi security and I even...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wireless security, VPNs, Network security, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, VPN, Wi-Fi security, WPA, WEP

Blog posts 2007-05-12

Internet gangs hire students for cybercrime

Internet gangs hire students for cybercrimelicensing"Do you want to play nuclear war?" was a film out of Seattle about 10 years ago where a young hacker somehow got into a Department of Defense computer system that controlled the US nuclear silos. I can't cruise by Ketron Island without thinking about...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Social Security, Internet, Bill Gates, computer, Harvard, U.S. Department of Defense

Discussion threads 2006-12-08

Apple strongly denies getting information from SecureWorks

Apple strongly denies getting information from SecureWorksStrong wordsGeorge:That is a strong denial. Thank you for posting that.apologies...are in order from those persons that have been accusing Apple of "parsing" words. This is as strong an indication so far that M&E and SecureWorks have not been playing this thing...

Tags: SECURITY, Blogging, Apple Inc., SecureWorks Inc., Maynor, JetJaguar

Discussion threads 2006-09-25

Breaking into a laptop via Wi-Fi

Breaking into a laptop via Wi-FiSo even with----WPA2 with 16-character super-strong letter/number-combo "words-tha're-no'-in-dictionary" password?Or, even if you go into Network Connections from Control Panel, right-click a network connection and choose properties, go to Wireless Network page, click Advanced in the bottom of the page, and select Infrastructure Networks Only.Am I...

Tags: Notebooks, SECURITY, Wi-Fi, Apple MacBook, Maynor, laptop computer, Apple HAD, wireless, vulnerability

Discussion threads 2006-08-02

PDF Password Cracker Pro 2 (Windows)

PDF Password Cracker Pro allows to search for owner and user passwords with brute-force and dictionary attacks, effectively optimized for speed. In addition, it has Key search attack, which guarantees the decryption regardless the password length and complexity of PDF files that use 40-bit encryption. PDF Password Cracker Pro Features:...

Tags: Password, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Windows, CrackPDF, PDF Password-Cracker Pro

Software downloads 2006-07-25

Understanding the updated WPA and WPA2 standards

If the challenge of securing a wireless LAN wasn't already confusing enough, things have just gotten worse. The confusion started last month when the Wi-Fi Alliance changed the WPA and WPA2 standards from supporting a single EAP Extensible Authentication Protocol standard to five EAP standards. Although this has...

Tags: WPA, standards, WPA2

Blog posts 2005-06-02

Firefox improves pop-up ad blocking

Firefox improves pop-up ad blockingA First by Open Source?Oh wait, I forgot, Open Source Software always follows proprietary software and attempts to offer a free version of a superior Product. I am sure this will be the spiel we get when Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 7.0downloadHow do I...

Tags: Web browsers, Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, pop-up ad, Club Shepherd 2005, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, software, dnld, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2005-04-05

PPTP VPN authentication protocol proven very susceptible to attack

Later today, Joshua Wright will release an upgraded version of his ultra-high speed password cracking tool called ASLEAP . For those of you already familiar with ASLEAP, you might be wondering what this has to do with Microsoft's PPTP VPN protocol since ASLEAP is a LEAP authentication dictionary attack tool....

Tags: PPTP, password, ASLEAP

Blog posts 2004-12-17

802.11a: Refuge from spectrum hogs

802.11a: Refuge from spectrum hogsNot DormatoriesThere are no Dormatories at that campus. Those were off campus but near campus apartments that have a contract with the University to offer cheaper house to student renters. The apartments also house non-university students, though, since they're independantly owned and operated.802.11a sidesteps interference...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, VPNs, Network security, WEP, IEEE 802.11, apartment, network

Discussion threads 2004-09-23

Linux fervor on display at trade show

Linux fervor on display at trade showCouldn't have said it better myself![b]Now Linux is a staple of the information technology diet and a component of computing company strategies to get an edge over their competitors.[/b]Beautiful... Linux is a fact of life, and it's just getting better. It's in the...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, OPEN SOURCE, Servers, Linux, G.W. Bush, Unisys Corp., server

Discussion threads 2004-08-01

MySQL addresses open-source license problem

MySQL addresses open-source license problemStill not main stream?"...growing pains in the open-source software movement as it becomes a mainstream part of the computing industry."ZDNet doesn't believe something is mainstream unless somebody is making a ton of money off it.I can't wait for the day that air becomes a mainstream product,...

Tags: Databases, MySQL, open source

Discussion threads 2004-03-12