SharePolice in Germany have shut down a website message board where hackers were exchanging malicious spyware and password-stealing programs designed to commit identity theft. According to investigators at the LKA (Landeskriminalamt) police internet crime unit in the Baden-Württemberg, the www.codesoft.cc forum was being used by hackers to exchange information about malware, spying and the creation [...]

ShareAssociative Word List Generator A Good online tool to generate Word Lists. You may give selective root words in the Text box that helps the tool to generate more Words related to it. The site also facilitates which words need to be avoided while generating the words. This helps to avoid generating some default password combination. 1. You may exclude the common words to generate a complex passwords. 2. [...]

ShareJohn the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos AFS and Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 [...]