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Security companies and IT people constantly tells us that we should use complex and difficult passwords. This is bad advice, because you can actually make usable, easy to remember and highly secure passwords. In fact, usable passwords are often far better than complex ones. So let's dive into the world of passwords, and look at what makes a password secure in practical terms.

ph33r.it is free password cracking for the masses, using rainbow tables we are able to crack different types of (unsalty) hashes in seconds.

Cain & Abel is a very powerful tool that helps you to recover a number of passwords from Microsoft operating systems.

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP con