Password Dragon – A No-Install Multi-Platform Password Manager

By Martin Kaba • Apr 11th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Web Utilities

Password Dragon is a free, multi-platform, no-install Java application. This portable password manager requires Java Runtime Environment – JRE 1.5 + for its full-functioning and uses Bruce Schneier’s Blowfish algorithm for cryptography. Ubuntu: Being a no-install, unpack the zipped package, and run with $ java -jar passworddragon.jar

Download KeePass 2.07 Beta

By Martin Kaba • Apr 10th, 2009 • Filed under: Open-Source, Ubuntu, Windows

KeePass, the free open source password manager and locker has released version 2.7 Beta for your thumb drive and Windows desktop. KeePass locally secures your passwords with a single master password and/or a key-file on your PC. Prerequisites: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0+ or Mono 2.2+

PC Login Now – The Fastest Windows Password Recovery Tool

By Martin Kaba • Sep 8th, 2008 • Filed under: Security, freeware

If you urgently want to regain access to your PC but can’t remember your password, then this freeware is for you. If you want to steal your way into a colleagues, girlfriend or brothers PC, then think twice before using this password recovery tool. Why? Because PC Login Now does not recover your lost password, [...]

Recover your saved passwords with the Firefox Asterisk Revealer

By Martin Kaba • Nov 27th, 2007 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox, Security

All platforms: The Firefox Asterisk Revealer reveals the contents of any password whose text is obscured by asterisks in an alert box using a simple JavaScript. How often do we forget are saved passwords? very often. It takes just a few months of blogging to accumulate so many passwords, I should personally have over 15 [...]

John the Linux Password Ripper

By Martin Kaba • Nov 15th, 2007 • Filed under: Security, Ubuntu

John is a cross platform password cracker that can be used to regain your lost Linux password. It is a good administrative tool for a multi-user system. The Linux version of John, that also has versions for Dos and Windows, comes as a downloadable source code, together with its signature. On Debian based platforms like [...]

Keep your passwords secure with KeePassX

By Martin Kaba • Nov 13th, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks

KeePassX is a cross platform password application that saves your various passwords in a single local database (on your PC), using a single master password and/or a key-file. – It’s a multi-platform ported version of KeePass, an open source password manager for Microsoft Windows. KeePass is also portable and has versions for Blackberry, PocketPC, BlackBerry, [...]

Ophcrack LiveCD-Linux

By Martin Kaba • Mar 22nd, 2007 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Security

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as on Linux. Features Runs on Windows,Linux and Mac OS [...]