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2. Cain and Abel (software) - Wikipedia

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   Cain and Abel (often abbreviated to Cain) was a password recovery tool for Microsoft Windows.It could recover many kinds of passwords using methods such as network packet sniffing, cracking various password hashes by using methods such as dictionary attacks, brute force and cryptanalysis attacks. [1]

3. Crack (password software) - Wikipedia

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   Randal L. Schwartz, a notable Perl programming expert, in 1995 was prosecuted for using Crack [8] [9] on the password file of a system at Intel, a case the verdict of which was eventually expunged. [10] Crack was also used by Kevin Mitnick when hacking into Sun Microsystems in 1993. [11]

4. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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   The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password (due to the fact that installing an entirely new password would involve System Administration privileges), to gain unauthorized access to a system, or to act as a preventive measure whereby system administrators check for easily crackable passwords. On a file ...

5. John the Ripper - Wikipedia

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   One of the modes John can use is the dictionary attack. [6] It takes text string samples (usually from a file, called a wordlist, containing words found in a dictionary or real passwords cracked before), encrypting it in the same format as the password being examined (including both the encryption algorithm and key), and comparing the output to the encrypted string.

6. Brute-force attack - Wikipedia

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   When password-guessing, this method is very fast when used to check all short passwords, but for longer passwords other methods such as the dictionary attack are used because a brute-force search takes too long. Longer passwords, passphrases and keys have more possible values, making them exponentially more difficult to crack than shorter ones ...

7. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account

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   Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and updated. 5. Check to make sure your recovery options are up-to-date. 6. Consider enabling two-step verification to add an extra layer of security to your account.

8. Locked out of your email? Here's how to change and recover ...

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   How to change your Gmail password if you have forgotten (or lost) it. Google says to follow these steps: 1. Navigate to this link to begin account recovery.2. Use one of the account recovery ...

9. Email hacking - Wikipedia

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   Email is a very widely used communication method. If an email account is hacked, it can allow the attacker access to the personal, sensitive or confidential information in the mail storage; as well as allowing them to read new incoming and outgoing email - and to send and receive as the legitimate owner.