Orkut is now one of the most popular social network in India and even abroad. On Hacking N Cracking Tips I found out a guide on how to hack orkut account passwords.

Here are some methods that are listed:

• Orkut Phishing: you have to send a fake orkut login page (orkut phisher) to orkut friend and ask him to login to orkut account by this fake orkut login phisher
• Keylogging :  you have to install keylogger software on victim computer and give destination at which keylogger will send all passwords typed on friend’s computer
• Community links: you are provided with community links in orkut scraps inviting you to join it. On clicking the link in orkut scrap, you are directed to orkut phisher explained above, ready to hack your orkut profile account.
• Orkut Javascript hack : orkut victim is provided with some javascript (popularly called code) and is asked to copy paste this javascript code in his address bar for say changing his orkut theme
• Orkut New Features: orkut scrap that looks like they are giving the user a choice of using new features for orkut with your ID and password 
• Primary email address hack: If orkut hacker, by some means, hacks your gmail or yahoo account which you are using as primary email address, then this orkut hacker can easily hack your orkut account using “Forgot password” trick.

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This tip is useful to break the password of RAR files that you may have downloaded from torrents and through forum links from rapidshare. It could also be a case when forgot the password of a RAR file that you proctected. 

The first tool the I propose using is called RAR Pass Finder. It is a portable light tool, with extremely easy to use interface.

Rar Pass Finder isn’t different from other password finders, it uses dictionary files, to test against the unknown password. The software isn’t 100% accurate, meaning that you won’t always find the passwords. Rar Pass Finder comes only in German, but since it has only 3 buttons, it’s pretty self explanatory. Drag and drop your .rar file(s) in the program window or open them using the “Rar-Archiv” button and start the checking using the “Passwortliste” (see screenshot). Read the rest of this entry »

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Sometimes you may face a huge dilema: you can not access the BIOS because you forgot the password. Or maybe you need to access the BIOS of someone else’s computer. The first thing you should be aware of is that cracking a BIOS password is not impossible.

Simple Thoughts lists several ways you can hack BIOS passwords.

• Try the default password.  In certain instances there are electrical problems cause the PROM on the motherboard to reset to the Bios(CMOS) to default values. You can try: concat, AMI, Award, bios, setup, cmos.
• Use a software to read the BIOS password like CmosPwd or !BIOS.
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Google recently upgraded its mobile maps software with a feature called Latitude that allows users with mobile devices to automatically share their location with others.

The feature expands on a tool released in 2007 that allows mobile phone users to check their own location on a Google map. The new feature raises several security concerns, but Google is trying to address this issue by requiring each user to manually turn on the tracking software and making it easy to turn off or limit access to the service.

Google says it will not retain any information on its users’ movements, and that only the last location recorded by the tracking service will be stored on Google’s computers. The software uses cell phone towers, global positioning systems, or a Wi-Fi connection to find users’ locations in the United States and 26 other countries.

Each user can decide who can monitor their location. Latitude will initially work on Blackberrys and devices running on Symbian software or Microsoft’s Windows Mobile. Eventually the software will be able to operate on some T-1 Mobile phones running Google’s Android software and Apple’s iPhone and iTouch devices.

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Insecure.Org has released in 2006 a survey password crackers tools and 3,243 people responded. Respondents were allowed to list open source or commercial tools on any platform. According to the survey, the most efficient tools for password cracking were:

1. Cain and Abel : The top password recovery tool for Windows

   Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort.
   

2. John the Ripper : A powerful, flexible, and fast multi-platform password hash cracker

   John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS.
   

3. THC Hydra : A Fast network authentication cracker which support many different services

   A very fast network logon cracker which support many different services

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For 1 month, from 4th of February to 4th of March, Reducto.info is running an interesting promotion: they offer Inside Keylogger to 40% of the normal selling price.

Inside Keylogger monitors and records all activities performed on a computer and sends reports to a specified email. Inside Keylogger records keystrokes, chat conversations, printing, application used, internet activity, modified files/folders and captures screenshots. From all these records you can choose the ones you want to be sent on e-mail. All these in complete stealth mode.

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Apple iPhone and iPod Touch applications and games can now be cracked using Crackulous, the one-click iPhone application.

Apple iPhone and iPod Touch applications are protected with DRM and can only be used on a single device they were purchased for. Not anymore! Crackulous, a free application, cracks the protection and use application/games purchased via the iTunes Store on as many devices as you like. IPA files will get saved at /var/mobile/media/DecryptedIPAs/, from where it can be downloaded via SSH and shared with your friends or community.

You can find the complete Crackulous tutorial on MegaLeecher.net. Enjoy!

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On One Man’s Blog you can find out how alarmingly easy it is to crack passwords.

The first step in cracking a password includes the simple act of guessing the top ten passwords (see below) used by 20 percent of all users.

1. Your partner, child, or pet’s name, possibly followed by a 0 or 1 (because they’re always making you use a number, aren’t they?)
2. The last 4 digits of your social security number.
3. 123 or 1234 or 123456.
4. “password”
5. Your city, or college, football team name.
6. Date of birth - yours, your partner’s or your child’s.
7. “god”
8. “letmein”
9. “money”
10. “love”  

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Every time you are using a computer in an Internet Cafe you should be aware of the possibility that your actions be recorded by a keylogger.

If an Internet Cafe is not well maintained, anyone can install keylogger, trojans or other such applications on those computers. They are sometimes detected only weeks or months later or worse - not at all - and could record your personal data, passwords, account credentials, etc via the internet to the ones who will surely exploit them to their advantage.

What can you do to avoid this? Here are some tips:

1. Check for Hardware KeyloggersThis should be the first thing to do.
   
   It’s easy to take a look for Hardware Keylogger devices. If you don’t know how a hardware keylogger looks like you should read a previous post: What is a Hardware Keylogger.
2. Use Anti-Keylogger or KeyScrambler Programs on your USB driveThis is a good idea.You can install a anti-keylogger (e.g. Free Anti Keylogger Program) on your USB, which would make sure that the PC you currently use isn’t infected with any known Keylogger. Of course, you have to update your anti-keylogger regularly, as Keylogger industry evolves fastly. Read the rest of this entry »

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Google has unveiled new administration tools designed to improve the use of passwords, in order to boost security for customers using its Google Apps hosted enterprise software offerings.

“Helping businesses, schools and organisations to keep information safe is critical, and we’ve been providing Google Apps customers with a spectrum of capabilities to help ensure that only authorised users have access to information accessible from the cloud,” wrote Eran Feigenbaum, director of security for Google Apps.

Google has also added a new layer of security with administrator controls that allow enterprises to define the length of passwords and analyse their strength.

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