Microsoft Hotmail passwords leaked online
Microsoft confirms that thousands of Windows Live Hotmail account usernames and passwords have indeed leaked to the Internet as reported by Neowin.net. After learning of the breach, Microsoft “immediately requested that the credentials be removed and launched an investigation to determine the impact to customers,” Security experts say that if 10,000 passwords were lost, this would be a big attack, but not the biggest on record. Phishing schemes that have netted attackers 50,000 to 75,000 passwords have been recorded, especially when millions of potential accounts are available for attack.
WindowsLiveWire has a post up on the issue, and protecting yourself from phishing.
Check Password Strenth with Microsoft password checker
Some Months Back we Mentioned About how to Create a Strong Password which will help you to create Strong Passwords. A strong password should appear to be a random string of characters to an attacker. It should be 14 characters or longer, (eight characters or longer at a minimum). It should include a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols.
Recover passwords From Outlook, MS Outlook, Eudora,Thunderbird
April 21, 2009 by Raj
Filed under Microsoft, Outlook Express, Passwords, Thunderbird
Mail PassView allows you to view account information, including username and password for POP accounts in Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2000/2003, IncrediMail, Eudora and Group Mail Free. Just run the program and the window will automatically find and display all accounts. You can choose to save all or selected accounts to a text file or copy it to the clipboard.
Recover Windows Live Messenger Password
Ever forgotten your password when using Windows Live Messenger with Remember My Password option? Windows Live Messenger Password Recovery is an application that lets you recover you password with your associated account or accounts. Windows Live Messenger Password Recovery is compatible with Windows Live Messenger 8.0 through to latest 8.5 Beta 2
How to Create Strong Passwords
Our passwords are the keys you use to access personal information that you’ve stored on your computer and in your online accounts. In today’s online world, having a strong password is a must. However, the problem with strong passwords is that they can be difficult to remember.
If criminals or other malicious users steal this information, they can use your name to open new credit card accounts, apply for a mortgage, or pose as you in online transactions.
So am here writing about some good tips which will help you to create strong passwords.
How to recover Messenger Passwords
MessenPass allows you to recover your password(s) from a wide variety of popular Instant Messenger programs, including MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger/Netscape 7, Trillian, Miranda and GAIM. Just run the program and it will present you with a list of all accounts found on your PC, including the username and passwords. The list can be exported to HTML or saved as text file.
MessenPass can only be used to recover the passwords for the current logged-on user on your local computer. You cannot use it for grabbing the passwords of other users.
How to open Password Protected Excel Files
If you have a excel file protected with the password and you don,t have the password or you forget the Password. But now you can open those Excel files easily with Excel Password Remover. Excel Password Remover is a free software which helps you to open the password protected Excel Files easily.
This Excel add-in works fine in Excel 5.0 and above (including Excel 2000, XP and 2003).
This program will remove passwords of any length, also passwords containing special characters.
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