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Posted on Jan 07, 2008 - 1:44am by John P. in Security, Videos
Windows security is sad. Although most of you have probably already read my article about using strong passwords, even the strongest passwords won’t keep your Windows login account from being penetrated. In fact, it takes only a couple of minutes to gain complete access to a Windows system using nothing more than a free CD ROM.
Now, if there is any good news - people are constantly locking themselves out of their personal laptops and home computers by forgetting the password. And recently I’ve had two different friends do this within a period of a couple of days. So you guys know how this works… when I start getting requests, I document the solution.
So, how easy could it be? Here are the instructions:
You should be able to follow any of the on screen instructions and have access to your computer again within minutes. Here is a little video demonstrating the process, though it’s highly unnecessary.
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theres probably no reason to post this but the video was removed
During my life as a sysadmin, I had this happen all the time. I burnt the image to a small (business card size CD), that I could easily carry around with me. The version I have boots a small version of linux that resets the admin password to an empty string.
Have to be very carefull though, because it’s linux accessing NTFS and if something goes wrong, the data could be toast.
Of course you use an encrypted flie system and you loose you password, I don’t think there is much that will help you.
Wouldn’t it be very easy for someone to hack into my acc?
I am beginning to wonder that is there a way to keep our passwords secure.!!!
Well switching to UNIX or LINUX might be the way, the video was gone when I got to this post, but the description in the blog post was enough for anybody
The solution might be to put your data inon a virtual PGP disk on the computer, that way even if someone gets access to your OS they wont be able to get in to your data just as easy.
Kim:)
Hello,
Because of professional affairs, I’ve had contact with this software and I must say it’s very good. Although it will not break (or take plenty of time) you password if it’s strong enough &@31rd%A should keep you safe for example (just try to remember it).
The othe way is to use encryption software - either commercial (especially to encrypt the whole hard drive) or free (to encrypt certain folders, where you can safely keep highly sensitive data). The biggest drawback of commercial software is that it’s mainly written for corporate users not for single license.
Anyhow, I recommend using so called USB keys (not storage devices) (cost around 10bucks) which are in fact microchips that allow you to encrypt folders and files. To access them, you need to insert USB key.
Sorry for being so boring, I could talk about it all day & night