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Tip of the Week: Beware of Phishing

You must have heard about phishing these days, well in case you haven’t then we have more on this topic in this week’s Tip of the Week.

Phishing is a type of scam designed to steal your personal data (such as credit card numbers, account data, passwords or other valuable information) by masquerading as a trustworthy [...]

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Tip of the Week: How to use Internet Safely

In this week’s tip, we will share how to use the internet safely and effectively.

Inappropriate use of Internet is unsafe and can lead to several and big problems. It may result in loss of confidential data/Intellectual property, damage to critical internal systems and more. Some of the practices that can harm our system and confidentiality [...]

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Tip of the Week: How to Make Passwords Difficult to Guess

We are back with this Week’s Tip where we will learn few tips on how to make Passwords difficult to guess.
In our day to day lives we need to store our information and thus we require passwords for that, but here is how to make your passwords strong and difficult to guess.
Tips:
• Ensure that your password [...]

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How to Recover and Reset Password in windows 7/Vista/XP/2003/2K/NT

We tend to forget our Windows administrator login password. With no way to get into the system, you can’t even perform basic maintenance, let alone a thorough tune-up. Formatting is always an option, but we consider that a last resort. (Plus, guess who’s going to have to help reinstall all the programs lost after a [...]

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Password Protect your Computer Games

If you are a gaming freak having loads of computer games installed in your system then you would surely love this tip.
Sharing your games with someone else may not interest you, as you may like games that somebody else may not. But if you wish to protect your games installed on your machine with a [...]

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Password Protect .exe Application Files

Have some secret exe files that you don’t want it to be run by any one else? Then you can protect it with a password of your choice.

Empathy is a great portable application that can protect any executable file with a password of your choice. That means whenever any one tries to run the exe [...]

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Login to the XP Administrator account through Safe Mode

If you have forgotten your Administrator account password then there is no need to worry as there are several ways to login into the account.

Here are the two ways that you can use successfully:
1.    Change the password ( read http://techsalsa.com/break-or-reset-administrator-password-in-xp/ post of mine)
2.    Reveal the forgotten password ( read http://techsalsa.com/reveal-or-recover-xp-administrator-password-using-ophcrack/ post of mine)
But some of [...]

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Use Remote Desktop Connection to access a remote PC

If you like travelling but need to perform some important work on the go then you must be having a laptop. But it could happen that you need to access some file stored on your desktop or run an application in some other computer, then you should definitely use the Remote Desktop Connection utility that [...]

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Break BIOS Password

A user may also put a BIOS password preventing you to even enter the system but if you wish to access the system do not worry we you can still do it. However, I only recommend this trick for your own personal use.
What is BIOS?
Bios stands for Basic Input Output System and is a firmware [...]

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Reveal or Recover XP Administrator Password using Ophcrack

Forgot Administrator password? Or is that you just wished to access the system with Admin privileges, you can break into the system without even feeling the need to change the password. If you want to reset the password, refer to my earlier post “Break or Reset Administrator password in XP”.

Knowing XP or even Vista’s Administrator [...]

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Break or Reset Administrator password in XP

So if you have forgotten the password of your admin account in Windows XP or just want to break in the Admin account of your college or office, do not worry, you can easily do that. However, I recommend this trick only for your personal use. There are numerous ways available to do so but [...]

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