Posts Tagged “password”

Speedy password cracking

Earlier today Jeff Atwood tweeted: you should *really* be scared if your passwords are all lowercase. 12 chars in 75 days on my box.. He was referring to his post on speed hashing where a video card GPU is used to calculate the hash of any given text. Compared to a computer CPU it does [...]

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20f1aeb7819d7858684c898d1e98c1bb

What is the significance of “20f1aeb7819d7858684c898d1e98c1bb”? It’s the MD5 hash of the name “Anthony” and was the password used by someone who broke into lightbluetouchpaper.org. Searching for the md5 hash was clever, but it won’t work for long because Ryan is working on securing the WordPress cookies and passwords. In case you’re wondering, the hacker [...]

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Excel password remover

If, as sometimes happens, you’re working at something and are called away from your desk, it’s nice to know you can lock Excel and stop others fiddling with it. Unfortunately it’s also possible that you might forget your password. *ahem* If so, go download the Free Excel password remover and watch it work wonders and [...]

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