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Change Windows Administrator password in Ubuntu Live Disc

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Whatever your reason for changing any users password, this simple howto will surely satisfy that need. The only way to prevent this currently is with full disk encryption. Here is how you change windows password within Ubuntu.(Other distro’s may have this nifty app in their repos as well)

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Three Approaches to Cracking the Windows Password

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Method #1:

Method #2: Download the ophcrack live cd burn the iso to cd, boot your computer off the cd, and ophcrack should spend 5-15 minutes to crack the password.

Method #3: Cain and Abel Password Cracker (can be used over a network)

Application

User Guide

What? You think it’d be harder? From a company that never treats security seriously anyways?

Howto: crack a wireless network with Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

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WEP was intended to provide comparable confidentiality to a traditional wired network (in particular it does not protect users of the network from each other), hence the name. Several serious weaknesses were identified by cryptanalysts — any WEP key can be cracked with readily available software in two minutes or less — and WEP was superseded by Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) in 2003, and then by the full IEEE 802.11i standard (also known as WPA2) in 2004. Despite the weaknesses, WEP provides a level of security that can deter casual snooping. Wikipedia

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