Why an exposed LM/NTLM Hash is comparable to a clear-text password Why a 127 character long password is not necessarily stronger than a 4 character long password Why generating LM/NTLM rainbow tables is a complete waste of time Passing-the-hash for direct authentication to remote systems Why one vu...

 The question asked most often is "How to install a dual-boot with Windows XP on my new Windows Vista computer?" The answer is that it’s not that difficult, it’s just very time consuming, and you need to own a copy of Windows XP. Note that you should not attempt this if y...

Do you have a folder that you’d like to be able to open quickly and easily whenever you want? If you create a keyboard shortcut for that folder, you can open it anytime by pressing a key combination, no matter which other programs you have open. To create a keyboard shortcut to open a folder ...

Structure of Windows XP Registry : When you will open the Windows XP Registry , you will see it’s divided into two panes. On the left side there are Five main Keys as shown below. These can be expanded to several Sub-Keys, which further has many Sub-Keys. +HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT +HKEY_CURRENT_US...

 You are no doubt reading this article because you are wondering why on earth there are nearly a dozen processes running with the name svchost.exe. You can’t kill them, and you don’t remember starting them… so what are they? So What Is It? According to Microsoft: "...