We continue our series of How-To videos covering various aspects of MSN password protection and recovery. The best way to protect your MSN password is to understand how attackers steal them i.e. what methods, techniques and tools are used by hackers to steal MSN passwords:
Next in a series of videos about handling your MSN passwords we cover some methods that attackers use to hack MSN passwords. We also show the tools that hackers use to for MSN password hacking:
We continue to post our fresh How-To videos on various aspects of handling MSN passwords. Today we show you how to find your MSN password if you come to I forgot my MSN password situation:
We’ve prepared a short video that guides through the password changing process for MSN. We cover cases when you don’t remember your old password (you need it to change MSN password to the new one).
This is a first in a series video about the MSN network and MSN Messenger called Change MSN password:
As stated on our program pages, we regularly test our software for compatibility.
Gmail Password Recovery needs an update on the following sides:
Add support for Gmail and Google passwords stored in new Firefox 3. It looks like Firefox password manager changed storage location every time the new version was released
Add support for Google Calendar Synch
IE6: there’s no need to update the algorithm for the new Internet Explorer 6. The current algorithm recovers these without a problem
I wanted to let our users know that we’re also working on fixing the bugs in Trillian password recovery tool. We have received numerous bug reports on this program and will put a priority on this bugfix release.
Here’s a list of things we want to fix:
The passwords from new versions of Trillian (3, Astra & Pro) are not recovered. Partly due to the fact that current password location search is not sophisticated enough
Small buffer - we have received reports about the current version of decrypter not showing all passwords due to low variable size
Missing characters in passwords. The decryption algorithm is limited in the range of characters that it understands
Facebook IM team has released their version of IM client some time early this year. Unofficial sources say that as much as up to 20% of on-line Facebook users are also logged into social.im (although I doubt the share is more than 10% since the IM is still in the beta stages).
For those of us that ever wanted to recover forgotten Facebook password that is saved in the browser and social.im client, there is bad news though -
The browser is not likely to keep the saved password. Instead the cookie is saved on the system that tells Facebook that user does not want the password to be entered each time.
There is no way to recover the password from that session cookie.
Some IMs store the saved password locally in some sort of encrypted or clear-text form. Just like with Yahoo Messenger, the social.im password is not stored locally. Social.im sends the password to the server during the first login. The server returns a string called AuthKey which is then used by social.im to authenticate at consequent times.
There is no way to find out which algorithm is used to translate the password into AuthKey (unless this info gets leaked from the social.im team or someone takes a guess that turns out to be correct).
The above reasons mean that there is no easy way of recovering Facebook password using the information saved on the local system.
Update: Looks like encrypted AuthKey is encoded using base64 format (to be able to store this authentication key in the ASCII form).
Windows Live Password Recovery is the tool that will instantly find, decrypt & recover Windows Live passwords that were saved by Windows Live Messenger on your PC under the current login. This decoder will recover multiple accounts and supports all known versions of Windows Live Messenger including Messenger Beta, MSN Messenger and Windows Messenger. Works also on Windows Vista. This cracker works when the “Remember My Password” checkbox is ticked in Windows Live Messenger and you are able to login automatically without entering your password. Even if you have un-installed Windows Live Messenger there is still a chance that your password is saved on your PC.
Passwords can be recovered from FileZilla v2.x from both registry and xml files but FileZilla 3.x passwords are not recovered
Size of one of the variables that holds the data internally is not large enough. As a result when you have many sites saved in the Connection Manager some of these sites will not be shown.
In the next couple of weeks we’ll re-write our FileZilla password decryption tool and release a new version with these and other tiny bugs removed.