passwords
Show Passwords in Firefox Form Fields
How often are you typing in your password in a login box on the web with someone peering over your shoulder? I suspect not very often yet the notion of replacing your password with ***** (asterisks) is commonplace. Obviously the idea is for your own protection but for some it may be overkill. If you [...]
Does Your Password Pass the Strength Test?
You are probably familiar with the conditions that are to be met in order to deem a password as strong or not – that is, is it susceptible to a brute force or guessing attack. A strong password should include letters, numbers, mixed case, and special characters. But how much of each is enough? Obviously [...]
Crack.. er Recover Lost BIOS Passwords
There are numerous ways to secure you computer and protect it from nosy bodies. All modern operating systems have the concept of user control and password protected logins. It’s an approach that is commonplace and accepted. Before this functionality though, the rest of us leaned on BIOS passwords. The BIOS is hidden quite well on [...]
Practice Safe and Secure Password Management with KeePass
We are living in a password protected society. Everywhere you turn you are prompted for usernames, passwords, pin numbers, security question and answers, etc. Starting a typical day for myself involves a password for the computer, a password for my email, a password for IM, and a password for the file server – and this [...]
Crack.. er Recover Lost Outlook PST Passwords
If you are reading this article you are probably aware that Microsoft Outlook can password protect it’s .PST file or Personal Folders – the file that holds all of your email. In practice, without the password you are not able to open Outlook and read email from the protected PST file. Furthermore, the password is [...]
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