"Many free (or nearly free) break-in tools are readily available on the Internet. You can easily find these utilities by searching the Internet with the keywords break-in tools.
You should take a quick look at the free break-in utilities for two reasons:
1. The quantity, general availability, and feature set of these tools should give you a wake-up call to physically secure your servers and defend against their potential use in your environment.
2. You might find some of these tools useful and wat to try them in a test environment.
Here's a sampling of free tools that will probably keep you awake at night: ..."
This post references five free utilities (well four with working URL's) that could help you break into Windows PC's (err... um... I mean, recover lost admin passwords... um... yeah).
Advanced Windows Password Recovery, Austrumi, Emergency Boot CD, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor,
I've used the Emergency Boot CD a number of times and it has always worked well for me.
I've not seen some of the other ones before... I'll have to check them out next time.
Also in the "Keeping you up at night" category:
ReplyDeletehttp://johnny.ihackstuff.com/index.php?module=prodreviews
OH YEAH, I forgot about the GHDB... That site is cool (in a sick and twisted way). And like you said, enough to keep you up at night...
ReplyDeleteI think I came across GHDB when I was into online cam'ing (like these, http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&q=intitle%3A%22WJ-NT104+Main+Page%22&btnG=Search)...
Thanks for the reminder! :)