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  2. 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 ...

  3. Reset or change your password - AOL Help

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    Click Change password. Enter a new password. Click Continue. From most AOL mobile apps: Tap the Menu icon. Tap Manage Accounts. Tap Account info. Tap Security settings. Enter your security code. Tap Change password. Enter a new password. If these steps don't work in your app, change your password using your mobile browser. Still need help?

  4. Pass the hash - Wikipedia

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    If an attacker has the hashes of a user's password, they do not need the cleartext password; they can simply use the hash to authenticate with a server and impersonate that user. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In other words, from an attacker's perspective, hashes are functionally equivalent to the original passwords that they were generated from.

  5. Ophcrack - Wikipedia

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    Ophcrack is a free open-source (GPL licensed) program that cracks Windows log-in passwords by using LM hashes through rainbow tables.The program includes the ability to import the hashes from a variety of formats, including dumping directly from the SAM files of Windows, and can be run via the command line or using the program’s GUI (Graphical user interface).

  6. 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.

  7. AOL Help

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    Get answers to your AOL Mail, login, Desktop Gold, AOL app, password and subscription questions. Find the support options to contact customer care by email, chat, or phone number.

  8. Crack (password software) - Wikipedia

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    The first public release of Crack was version 2.7a, which was posted to the Usenet newsgroups alt.sources and alt.security on 15 July 1991. Crack v3.2a+fcrypt, posted to comp.sources.misc on 23 August 1991, introduced an optimised version of the Unix crypt() function but was still only really a faster version of what was already available in other packages.

  9. Brute-force attack - Wikipedia

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    Brute-force attacks work by calculating every possible combination that could make up a password and testing it to see if it is the correct password. As the password's length increases, the amount of time, on average, to find the correct password increases exponentially. [6]