This is How to Hack Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail Account

November 30, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · 26 Comments 

Don’t Fall Victim to these ‘How to Hack Hotmail’ scam, same goes for those searching for tutorials on how to hack Gmail and Yahoo Mail Account. DISCLAIMER: The author of this article does not advocate the breaking of any law. The article is written for an information and warning purposes only.

Someone recently asked me how to retrieve their spouse’s Hotmail password, knowing that this is almost impossible, I reluctantly browse through the net for an answer; I realized that internet is flooded with million and millions of these so called hacking Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo mail tutorial scams. Why is it a scam?

How to Hack Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail Account

The Truth

The truth is, these scams works by fooling you into giving out your own password blindly, one of the requirement set out by these hackers is the sending of your own user name and password to an account that the scammer owns. Usually it has a very suspicious name to it, for example recoverpassword@hotmail.com (example) or adminpasswordrecovery@yahoo.com (example). How does it work?

These hackers claimed that there is a bug in the Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo mail system and by emailing your user name, your password and your spouse’s /friend’s /enemy’s email address to the designated email address, a reply together with the requested password would arrive in your inbox within a day or two. Truth is, you’ve been conned into giving out your password, thus allowing the hacker unrestricted access into your email account.

The bottom line is, never reveal your password to a stranger, not even Microsoft’s hotmail team members, and your password can be retrieved with the ‘lost password’ feature in hotmail or any other email system.

Is there another way, say some soft of Brute Force hacking software?

You’ve been warned again, there are no such things as Brute Force hacking for emails. Brute Force hacking doesn’t work in any internet application, it’s like flooding the server with million of request per minute, common sense would tell you that if a server spot a DOS attack, it would block the IP address immediately, as a general rule of thumb, NEVER do anything a “hacker” tells you to do.

But, there ought to be some bug in their system right?

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Adriaan Graas is a 16 years-old student from Netherlands who is interested in internet security and web development. Adriaan Graas informed Microsoft about an XSS (cross site scripting) exploit he found in Hotmail. Read More - Hacking Hotmail

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Ask Dave Taylor found a relatively simple bug in gmail, it’s a sneaky hack that involves just as much social engineering as computer trickery. The key is that you got an invitation from someone you didn’t know. Read More - Hacking Gmail.

Breaking into an email account with known exploit is possible, but the only problem is, the engineers would have patched up the hole within hours when a bug is found. On top of that, exploiting a bug in an email system requires an in depth knowledge in computing, what are your chances of finding one and go about hacking it?

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How to Recover Your Windows XP and Vista User Login Password

November 28, 2007 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment 

Please take note that this article is meant for those that lost their Windows user login password, it is illegal to perform this task on another person’s computer without their knowledge. Please use the following method wisely.

The tutorials are fairly simply, it does not require an intensive knowledge in computing to go about recovering your lost password.

Method 01 - Ophcrack is a Windows User Login Password Cracker

How to Recover Your Windows User Login Password

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman’s original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.

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What makes ophcrack so powerful is the ability to crack Microsoft Windows user login password with the LiveCD function, no installation needed. LiveCD boots up before windows does, thus allowing it to load and starts cracking your Windows XP and Vista login password, this bootable feature makes sense because without your password you are completely log out of your own computer.

The only drawback of the cracker is when it comes to cracking passwords with alphanumeric more than 15 characters, fear not, the good news is, how many people actually have a 15 character password? Probably that is why you’re reading this post because you have a password that is so long that you’ve somehow forgotten about it, am I right? Anyway the software is free and here are some of the unique features:

  • Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
  • Loads hashes from encrypted SAM recovered from a Windows partition.
  • Bootable directly from the CD.

Note that the it only runs on Mac powered by intel processor, older Macs powered by Motorola G5 processor are not compatible.

Method 02 - Administrator Mode

How to Recover Your Windows User Login Password

The next scenario: What if you lost your Bios password and you’re not able to change the boot up sequence from Harddisk to CD-Rom, thus rendering LiveCD feature useless. Fear not, all Windows comes with the Administrator function, the question is, how do we bring up the administrator login screen?

Simple, hit ‘Ctrl’ + ‘Alt’ + ‘Del’ to bring up the alternative login screen, a new dialog box would popup, what you need to do is key in the user name as ‘administrator’, leave the password field empty and hit ‘enter’. Volla, you’re log into the default administrator user account. Run ophcrack to retrieve your forgotten Windows Login password.

Method 03 - Repair Windows

This method requires the original Microsoft Windows CD, TechTrax has an article ‘Forgot My Administrator Password!‘, they provide a step by step tutorial on how to recover your lost Windows XP password.

How to Secure Your Windows Login Password or prevent people from logging into your computer without your knowledge

Knowing that such a powerful Windows Login Cracker exist, what makes your computer secure? What are the odds of a stranger sneaking in and out of your comp when you’re not around, stealing your data, going through your browsing history without your knowledge?

How to Recover Your Windows User Login Password

With the availability of these methods as described above, the chances of people sneaking into your ’secure’ comp is possible. Windows user login password is really weak, what you need is a hardware security lock instead of a software based security, Rohos Logon Key is one of the many hardware security product for windows, it comes in the form of a USB drive, instead of a software based security where you key in your password, it turns your Windows Login requirement into a hardware security token, nobody can access your comp without the exact security USB key, problem is if your lost the USB key, you’re as good as dead.

Rohos Logon Key is considered to be the most convenient, user-friendly and smart password replacement application on the market. This protects your company from information theft.

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