How To Reset, Remove, Clear or Reveal CMOS BIOS Security Password
There are times that we need to reset the computers BIOS security password. Yesterday I was at the local government technical school facility and the person who is in charge of the computer told me that they are not able to reinstall Windows because they are not able to get in the BIOS to set the boot order as it is password protected. The lecturers do not know the password as it is not set by them, but by some unknown student.
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6.7.2008 OpenOffice Password Recovery
Thanks to pacpis for this news in our forum. OpenOffice Password Recovery is an "all-in-one" solution for effective recovery of passwords to open OpenOffice documents and instant removal of any type of document protection.
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23.4.2007 Hack into a Windows PC - no password needed
A security consultant based in New Zealand has released a tool that can unlock Windows computers in seconds without the need for a password.
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9.3.2008 LockCrypt 1.50 - Secure Password Management
LockCrypt is a free account management program which uses high strength AES encryption to encrypt your data, so only you can access it.
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12.5.2008 Vista, IE7 Clear of US Antitrust Concerns
The Justice Department will not be going after Microsoft for any antitrust concerns with Windows Vista or Internet Explorer 7.
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22.11.2006 Get Free NOD32 License with Valid Username and Password for 90-Days
NOD32 is a popular antivirus software that ranks one of the best and most accurate detection and lowest failure rate.
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19.12.2006 Download Clear Cache Feature for Internet Explorer
Overview
This program is intended to automatically delete all temporary Internet files, cookies, and history files when it is installed and executed. The program was developed to programmatically clear these files when a corrupt entry caused errors with Internet Explorer.
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1.12.2005 MSN Direct Goes High Def with Clear Channel
Companies collaborate to deliver rich data services on HD digital radio format to smarten everyday objects.
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10.1.2007 Easily Login to Windows XP with No Password Administrator Account Backdoor Trick
In password-protected Windows XP Home or Professional edition system, each user logs on to his or her own user name and password to have full access to the Windows computer.
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25.11.2006 XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Are in the Clear, Word Is Still Out on Windows 7
While Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista are in the clear, word is still out on Windows 7, when it comes down to antitrust issues.
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13.3.2008 Latest Vulnerability Attacks Steer Clear of Vista SP1, but Not XP SP3
The latest attacks targeting vulnerabilities in Microsoft's software products have steered clear of Windows Vista Service Pack 1.
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24.3.2008 How to Clear & Stop Displaying Windows Media Player 12 Frequent List in Windows 7
Windows 7 Start Menu is almost similar to Windows Vista however Windows 7 Taskbar aka superbar is way different from Vista & XP Taskbar. In Windows 7 Taskbar you have access to jump list and recently opened document list of Office word and for Windows Media Player you will get frequently played video list.
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20.7.2009Kodak Designs New CMOS Sensor
Eastman Kodak Company revealed today in a press release that it has created the world’s first 1.4 micron, 5 megapixel device, the KAC-05020
Image Sensor. Using significantly smaller pixels, this sensor enables a higher level of resolution in small optical formats which will be especially
useful in devices like cellphones: the sensor allows for full 720p video at 30fps in a quarter-inch camera. Unlike other small-pixel sensors which can
produce poor images, especially under low light conditions, the 1.4 micron pixel used in the KAC-05020 is reportedly able to provide image quality
that can equal or surpass what is available from current devices using larger, 1.75 micron pixel CMOS designs.
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05.02.2008Windows Passwords: Making them Secure (Part 1)
Like any network operating system, at the heart of the security is a username and password. There are default users created (Administrator and Guest
are a few), which will all have a password associated with them. When any user attempts to authenticate or access any resource, the password for their
user account is required. Now, thank goodness, a Windows Server 2003 (and later) domain requires a password by default. This password needs to be
protected at all angles due to the potential of it being captured, guessed, hacked, or in some other way determined. There are many ways to protect a
Windows password, this series of articles will discuss what you can do to increase security for your passwords. First, we must understand how a
password is established and controlled, then how it can be attacked, so we can then take measures to protect against the common attacks.
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15.04.2009Protect Your Windows XP Computer with a Blank Password?
Weblog Digital Inspiration
offers some counterintuitive advice for users who don't protect their Windows XP computers with passwords more difficult than
simplistic passwords like
abc123: Don't use a password at all. In fact, in
this article from Microsoft, the blank password option is described as
more secure than a weak password provided 1) you only have one computer or you don't need to network your computers and 2) you trust everyone who has
physical access to the computer.
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07.03.2008Does your password pass the test?
Do we all need to be that careful about our passwords? Probably not. But passwords are one of the web's most important security tools. Whether it's
for your Google account, your banking center, or your favorite store, choosing a good password and keeping it safe can go a long way toward protecting
your information online.
So how do you choose a good password, and then keep it safe? A few of these tips can help...
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05.06.2008Configuring Granular Password Settings in Windows Server 2008 The Easy Way
Jakob H. Heidelberg: In the article series "Configuring Granular Password Settings (
part 1 &
part 2) we demonstrated how
to configure Granular Password Settings for individual users or global security groups in a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory environment, using
built-in methods. This article will demonstrate The Easy Way of how to handle these additional password policies in your Windows Server 2008 domain
environment.
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19.03.2008Safari and Chrome: Tied For the Worst Password Manager
Safari and Chrome are
tied for the worst password manager built into a major Web browser
according to a new study on the issue produced by Chapin Information Services. One problem is that some password managers can be tricked into
submitting different password credentials to different parts of the same Web site. The bug has been fixed in Firefox, but Chrome and Safari are still
vulnerable to this kind of attack.
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15.12.2008Either choose strong passwords, or don't bother with a password at all
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Earlier today I downloaded the latest Live CD for
Ophcrack,
the Windows password cracker, and tried it out on a Vista install to see how good of a password buster it is.
Conclusion: Either
choose strong passwords, or don’t bother with a password at all.
Here’s the test - I took a virtual PC that uses
Windows Vista that I’ve been sharing with a few friends (Fred, Barney, Betty and Wilma … you might know them) and put this up against the
Live CD to see how many passwords I could recover.
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31.05.2008Twitter Apps - Can we trust them?
Twitter Apps - these are the 3rd party applications which interact with twitter and provide some extra/advanced services that twitter doesn't
provide. One such app is Twply which sends your twitter replies to your Inbox. This is really great, whenever someone replies to me, I get notified.
There is one problem with such twitter apps. Some apps, like Twply, requires your twitter password to interact with your twitter account. There is no
way these twitter apps can fetch your twitter information without your password. Twply was launched on Thursday January 1st 2009 and sold to
SitePoint in less than 24 hrs! All the data, including your twitter password is now sold to SitePoint.
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02.01.2009iPhone password revealing bug
A user on Twitter has posted a message about a potentially nasty bug found on the iPhone and iPod touch firmware. This user, rpetrich, discovered the
exploit, which can reveal users passwords on the devices, according to ModMyi.com. The bug only works in certain scenarios and doesn't pose a
risk to users everywhere, unless somebody within arm reach gets a hold of your iPhone or iPod touch. The bug can be exploited in almost every
available application that stores passwords; this includes your saved email account passwords. The bug can reveal all characters, except the very
first character in the password field.
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14.09.2009GPU-Accelerated Wi-Fi password cracking goes mainstream
The once thought 8 character length password may no longer be safe, after the GPU-accelerated password recovery attack can break weak WPA/WPA-2 PSK
passwords. The Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor mentioned that its software can work completely off-line and find passwords by analyzing a dump of
network communications, and display them in plain-text. The Wireless Security Auditor does require the source of a valid log of wireless
communication. Experts have urged IT managers to move from 8 character WMP passwords to 12 or 15, in a quote from David Hobson: "It's a
wake-up call to IT managers, pure and simple. IT managers should now move to 12 and even 16 character keys as a matter of urgency.
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24.01.20098-Megapixel Mini-Cameras
Coming
8-megapixel resolution images,
traditionally restricted to
high-end digital SLR cameras,
will soon be possible with
small point-and-shoot cameras
and cell phones, thanks to a
new sensor developed by
Micron. The CMOS chip will
also eliminate lag between
taking pictures...
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19.05.2006Microsoft security fix clobbers 2 million password stealers
Microsoft's June security updates were bad news for online criminals who make their living stealing password information from online gamers.
The company's Malicious Software Removal Tool -- a program that detects and removes viruses and other undesirable programs from
Windows machines -- zapped game password-stealing software from more than 2 million PCs in the first week after it was updated to detect these
programs on June 10.
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21.06.2008Facebook users targeted by botnet spam
Facebook users have been targeted by a large-scale spam attack that informs them that their password has been reset, and that the attached zip archive
contains their new password. Instead of a new password, users will find a trojan downloader, dubbed "Bredlab" or "Bredolab" by anti-virus
companies. The downloader then downloads additional malware from two servers, including fake anti-virus software, and joins the Bredolab botnet. This
gives attackers full control of the PC, allowing them to steal user information or use the PC to send spam emails. One of the servers is based in the
Netherlands, with the other in Kazakhstan, according to an alert on Websense, a security research company.
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30.10.2009Why does Windows XP generate so many logon failure events?
Eric Fitzgerald: I got the question last week, why there are so many logon failure events on Windows XP when it is not domain joined.
The short answer is, by design. (Yes, bad design.)
The longer answer is that the shell team is working around the fact that
there is no "tell me if this user account has a blank password" API.
When in a workgroup (not domain joined), Windows XP
displays a welcome screen that has little pictures (called "tiles") for each user who is permitted to log on to the computer.
The shell team wanted the experience that when you click on a tile, that you will immediately be logged on if your password is blank (we have good
data that a large percentage of home users have blank passwords). They only want you to be prompted for a password if you actually have a password.
Fair enough, and it also helps with accessibility for people for whom typing is challenging.
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10.11.2007Microsoft Uses Inkblots in Password Generation
Microsoft Research has just launched a new Web site InkBlot, which shows, a series of Rorschach Inkblots and helps users create a secure, personal
password that is easy to remember. The user is presented with a sequence of random inkblots. Each should remind the user of a word, a butterfly or a
pumpkin, for example. For each image, the user then types the first and last letters of the word that come to mind, such as 'by' for butterfly
or 'pn' for pumpkin. InkblotPassword.com currently has 1,000 inkblots in its database.
Passwords almost always suffer from one or
more serious problems. Users have a difficult time remembering strong (high-entropy, hard to guess) passwords. Users handle this difficulty by
recording their password somewhere insecure, by selecting a weak but memorable password, or by using the same password at multiple sites. You can also
learn more about the principles behind inkblot passwords in this Microsoft Research technical Report MSR-TR-2004-85.
One question which
comes to mind, is that if the site is saving the word associations, does it mean that it is saving your password too ?
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10.12.2007That password-protected site of yours - it ain't
It's one of the simplest hacks we've seen in a long time, and the more elite computer users have known about it for a while, but it's
still kinda cool and just a little bit unnerving: A hacker has revealed a way to use Google and other search engines to gain unauthorized access to
password-protected content on a dizzying number of websites.
While plenty of webmasters require their visitors to register or pay a fee
before viewing certain pages, they are typically more than eager for search engine bots to see the content for free. After all, the more search
engines that catalog the info, the better the chances of luring new users. But the technique, known as cloaking, has a gaping loophole: if Google and
other search engines can see the content without entering a password, so can you.
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23.08.2008And the password is - fundamentally insecure
The best password is a long, nonsensical string of letters and numbers and punctuation marks, a combination never put together before. Some admirable
people actually do memorize random strings of characters for their passwords - and replace them with other random strings every couple of months.
Then there's the rest of us, selecting the short, the familiar and the easiest to remember. And holding onto it forever.
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11.08.2008Legal team scrambles to suppress MobiTV addresses shared in the clear
Once again, a string of characters that purports to be secret intellectual property turned up in the clear, and its public dissemination has triggered
more efforts by its owner's legal team than, evidently, by its security team...
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07.03.2008Clear Channel to add 800+ station streams to Reciva device
To expand its already large base of listeners, Clear Channel announced it will make content from more than 800 stations available nationwide to users
who own Internet radio receivers made by a producer of parts for XM and Sirius...
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20.05.2008AMD, Qimonda in joint chip simulation project
Microprocessor manufacturer AMD and memory chip vendor Qimonda have launched a joint chip simulation project for 32nm CMOS and beyond.
The program, dubbed SIMKON, aims at simulation at a very early stage in the design cycle. Thus, the companies which both maintain production
sites and mask making facilities in Dresden, Germany, hope to achieve significant benefits in terms of design time and cost during the design and test
cycles of new chip generations. The simulation program includes modeling and simulation at the physical level and refers to materials, architectures
and manufacturing processes.
With the simulations, the companies intend to define and optimize nanometer production processes in
advance. AMD will use the simulation results to optimize its CMOS transistor architectures for the 32nm node and beyond. Qimonda is working in a
similar direction and plans to achieve extremely planar wafer surfaces as a precondition for the manufacturing of DRAM chips with these extremely
small geometries.
In addition to AMD and Qimonda, nine universities and research institutes participate in the project which in
part is is funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) as a part of its IKT2020 research program. The ministry will spent €9
million (about $12.3 million) for the project.
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