Test how secure are your passwords with Password Meter

By Martin Kaba • Mar 26th, 2008 • Filed under: Security, WordPress

Find out how secure are your passwords with this online tool called Password Meter. It would tell if your mother’s surname you use as password is secure enough. This tool able to show you exactly where your password “fails” and where it “excels”.
Putting together Uppercase and Lowercase Letters, Numbers, Symbols makes a better […]

Recover your saved passwords with the Firefox Asterisk Revealer

By Martin Kaba • Nov 27th, 2007 • Filed under: 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 […]