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Disabling bogus Google Chrome "compromised password" warning?
How do you turn off the nag popup in Google Chrome about compromised passwords?
I do a lot of local software web dev in Google Chrome, and for some reason, Google thinks the password for my local ...
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A stranger's email has ended up as a saved username in my Google Account. How can this happen?
I'm really starting to question google's Password manager. I have two very strange cases here:
(Case 1. In Chrome, my brother found a username and password to a local newspaper in his Google account. ...
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How do I recover the password to a gmail account with hydra? [closed]
hydra -S -l "$email" -P w_file -V -s 465 smtp.gmail.com smtp
Where email is just one one my gmail accounts and w_file is a file with three incorrect passwords and one correct (karina6c in ...
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How to password protect Icecast2 portal webpage
I have a Raspberry Pi with a microphone attached, which is streaming audio. I have DDNS and port forwarding setup on the router, and so I can listen to the audio over the web.
Problem is, the Icecast2 ...
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Deploy encrypted password on Windows 10 without key
I've previously been using mkpasswd to encrypt a password on Linux, and piping it to chpasswd to set the password of a new user.
I run mkpasswd standalone on a machine:
$ printf "s£cr3t" | ...
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How can I make password SSH more secure?
I need to log into a machine using a password. (This machine is provisioned automatically for me and others, and keys aren't provided, only individual passwords)
At first I used openssh from Windows ...
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If I have multiple tabs/windows open in Firefox, which of them can potentially be recording my keystrokes?
Let's say, in Firefox, I have two windows open (W1 and W2), and each has two tabs (e.g. W2.T1 = second window, first tab). On each window, T1 is the tab that's in focus. Currently, my computer has W1 ...
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How to access a non-trusted SSH server without a password and without providing your private key?
This answer explains how to set up a key-based ssh authentication to avoid re-typing the password at each access.
However, it apparently requires providing the server with a client's private key (No! ...
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Save password or type every time: which way is safer? [closed]
Now most browsers support remembering passwords for sites. But I always have prefered to typing them every time, since I thought it was safer, until today when I start to contemplate if it's really ...
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Kali Linux Hashing Algorithm
I'm a junior penetration tester student, learning many new things in cyber security and putting as much of it in practice as I can. I was practicing some hash identifying and cracking, and as I was ...
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How do I unlock a remotely locked laptop if forgotten password
I remotely locked my Windows 11 laptop using my Microsoft Account to see how MS stood up against Apple, forgetting that I had changed both the Administrator’s password & PIN which I can’t recall. ...
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How to REQUIRE password for authentication (Microsoft Live Account login)
How do I lock-down my Microsoft account such that a password is required to login?
https://login.microsoftonline.com/
I logged-into my Microsoft Live account for the first time in some years, and I ...
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How do you avoid typing the passphrase (password) of your ssh key each time, on Linux and Windows with OpenSSH?
(This is a repost and edit of a question by xiiryo originally posted and closed fairly quickly on Stack Overflow.)
I use a passphrase-protected ssh key (RSA). (I used to call this a password-protected ...
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New files added to 7zip arhive are not protected by password
I have an archive in my onedrive for business directory that contains sensitive information that I keep password protected for extra security. The problem is, when I add new files to the archive ...
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Is it possible to bypass my old password-protected .7z archive which was saved by 7-Zip in late 2011?
In November 2011, I created a .7z archive file that's about 870 megs, using 7-Zip. Apparently, I password-protected it without saving the password...
I highly doubt that it contains anything of value, ...
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