“You Can Hack a Computer Just by Looking at It” – HP Explains Visual Hacking

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="visual-hacking" height="396" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/visual-hacking.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Visual Hacking is a security threat that is often overlooked by us. This is the act of stealing information by simple observation and it’s success rates are as high as 90%. Read more to know everything about it.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Visual Hacking is a relatively new term that you need to add in your jargon. When I’ll tell you its meaning, you’d even refuse to accept that it’s some kind of “hacking.” But, as the security threats are increasing, visual hacking is becoming a terrifying issue and we need to take some basic steps for an effective security.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">According to the genius minds at HP security division, if someone is able to read what’s on your screen and it’s not intended for that person, it falls in the category of “visual hacking”. After stealing some information by visual means, the act of owning someone’s digital life becomes much easier.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“With more and more PCs being used in public places, visual hacking — the act of collecting confidential information by looking at someone else’s screen — is a paramount security risk in today’s business environment,” says an HP executive.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In today’s busy and competitive world, laptop users are not aware of the fact who is looking over their shoulders. This is a way to gather credentials by observation and thus visual hacking becomes a greater threat. As shown in a recent research conducted by HP and 3M, about 90% of the attempts to steal business information was successful using visual hacking methods. The stolen data included employee login and access passwords, contact lists, consumer data, financial information etc.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To curb this menace, HP has partnered with 3M to deliver the solutions that protect the privacy of a user and improve the security measures by protecting the secrets of a billion-dollar company. The company has launched a collaboration to incorporate 3M privacy screens in the HP’s notebooks that are more focused on security.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">HP and 3M have announced the use of a “screen darkening technology that protects your screen from prying eyes on either side.” Basically, it’s a dark plastic that restricts the viewing angle.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This highly successful visual hacking method is a security aspect that goes unnoticed a number of times. But, as mentioned above, its success rate increases the security threats to an alarming level.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the future, we hope that visual hacking would be taken more seriously as a security threat and all the device manufacturers will employ effective solutions to curb it.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Have something to add? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

“You Can Hack a Computer Just by Looking at It” – HP Explains Visual Hacking

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Explained: How Criminals Hack Your Chip And Pin Card

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="Chip-pincard-hack" height="426" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Chip-pincard-hack.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>EMV credit cards have till now been assumed to be unhackable. The security professor from the University of California explains how it is NOT so.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With the advancing technology and due time given anything and everything can be hacked. We have already seen some of such events like the car-hacking, whole corporates brought down by the attackers, and recent revelations by ex-NSA contractor that your smartphone can be hacked with just one SMS makes security a serious issue in the contemporary world.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, the latest buzz is that even the new EMV (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) credit card verification chip system that was supposedly promised by these companies to be unhackable has been exposed. The EMV cards have inbuilt microprocessor chips that give it a double layered security. It works analogous to the two-factor authentication, generating a unique code each time you use your credit card rendering it almost impossible for the hacker to steal your information. Well, almost…</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Professor Ross Anderson from the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge explains in this video how the black-hats compromise the Chip & Pin system to gain access to the sensitive information.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Watch the video below:</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ks0SOn8hjG8" width="560"></iframe> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did you find this article helpful? Let us know in comments below.</span></div> </div>

Explained: How Criminals Hack Your Chip And Pin Card

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Margaret Hamilton: Meet The Woman Whose Code Took Humans to The Moon

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><img alt="moon-code-woman" height="387" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/moon-code-woman.jpg" width="640" /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Margaret Hamilton with the source-code of Apollo Guidance Computer in 1969</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">SP's: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Margaret Hamilton was the software genius of her times who made the smooth landing of the historic Apollo 11 on the Moon possible.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The whole world knows of Neil Armstrong and his famous small step and a giant leap on July 20, 1969 when United States’ Apollo 11 landed on Moon. It was a historic moment for the mankind, a journey of 384,400 km that has today been protracted over 7.5 billion kms to Pluto.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But, the journey was not a fairy-tale as most people would know it. Years of hard work, failures and spirited team effort brought this dream to reality. As Neil Armstrong put his feet on behalf of all the mankind on the Moon, the world was ecstatic, and so was Margaret Hamilton, the woman whose code took the man to the Moon.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Margaret was the integral member of the part of the MIT team that was entrusted by NASA with the on-board flight software. This was the first time when the relatively new and abstract concept of software and codes were trusted with something so risky and real-time critical task.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As she recalls, just before the landing, the computer was cluttered with the erroneous signals and superfluous information sent by the radar and alarms went off indicating overloading. The software that Margaret and her team developed helped the computer to prioritize the tasks and avoided it from getting into a recovery mode. Had the software not been there, the computer would have gone berserk and history, well, not as we know today!</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Margaret is hailed as the computer science pioneer and she was the woman who coined the term “software engineering”. Needless to say, most of the people reading this article would thank her for their employment. 1950-60s was a time when software stream was just evolving and was not given due respect compared to other fields of engineering.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Margaret tells in an interview to the Medium that she is surprised that even after all the achievements by the women in all spheres of lives and profession they still face biases and prejudices.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Parisa Tabriz is one such outstanding lady who has been employed by Google to protect its empire from black-hats. Parisa goes by the name- “Security Princess” proving women are equally good if not better than men.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Margaret had worked in all the Apollo manned missions and few unmanned ones as well. Naming her famous works, she has also worked on Skylab on-board flight software and preliminary software requirements for the Space Shuttle flight software.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">NASA felicitated her with Exceptional Space Act Award for her contributions in the Apollo missions. She was also the founder of Hamilton Technologies Inc. in 1986 which provides services to modernize the planning and helps the software engineers with their problem-solving approach though the USL (Universal Systems Language).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All in all, she was an amazing woman who worked for the evolution of our technology and is an inspiration to all the women in the contemporary times.</span></div> </div>

Margaret Hamilton: Meet The Woman Whose Code Took Humans to The Moon

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ZERO: This Smartphone Absolutely Does Nothing And That’s An Amazing Thing

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="zero-nophone" height="320" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/zero-nophone.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>ZERO from New York-based NoPhone is here to end your smartphone addiction. This phone has absolutely NO features at all. Read more to know what’s the idea behind it and everything else.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Being a technology addict could be frustrating sometimes and then you start looking for an escape. If you want to give up those endless sessions of texting, posting countless pictures to Instagram, and watching tons of YouTube videos – here’s a great device for you.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This new phone in the market called ZERO from New York-based NoPhone. As the name suggests, it comes with no features at all. It doesn’t come with any high-definition camera or some new technology like Force Touch. And you can’t even make a call.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’s just a rectangular black piece of plastic that is cut in the exact dimensions as Apple’s iPhone 5 and it’s a follow-up to NoPhone’s first follow-up, which raised more than $18,000 on Kickstarter last year.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It’s sleek and familiar design keeps your hands busy and is devised to fulfill the constant need to hold a smartphone.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img height="640" loading="lazy" src="https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/004/503/276/71b69d25202f01cc7b03d92b417e462c_original.gif?v=1442347600&w=680&fit=max&q=92&s=401fc98267f87cb7488731c054b540ea" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“It’s a technology free-alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact. We want to become the largest fake phone company in the world, that’s kind of the goal,” NoPhone Co-Founder Van Gould says.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The earlier model included a mimicked camera, button, and an outlet. All these distractions have been removed from the new model to make a black and rectangular piece of plastic.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And what are the reactions of people? Well, they are loving it.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <ul> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">‘It feels like a smartphone in my pocket, but it’s just a plastic rectangle’ – Monica P</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">‘I can now eat food without taking photos of it. Thanks, NoPhone!’ – Andra J</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">‘Because of the NoPhone, I haven’t drunk texted my ex-boyfriend in one whole year’ – Craig G</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This fake phone addresses the real need of rekindling the disappeared human interaction in our lives.</span></li> </ul> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The previous model of NoPhone sells for $12, but the new ZERO sells for $5. If you liked the idea, grab your real phone and order a ZERO right now. 😉</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tell us your views in comments below.</span></div> </div>

ZERO: This Smartphone Absolutely Does Nothing And That’s An Amazing Thing

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America’s Top Young Scientist: 9th Grader Wins $25k For Harvesting Energy From Ocean

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="Hannah-Herbst won-America's-Top-young-Scientist-won-$25K" height="453" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Hannah-Herbst-won-Americas-Top-young-Scientist-won-25K.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Hannah Herbst devised a brilliant generator that harvests oceanic energy to generate clean electricity, that could further be used to provide clean water in developing countries. She won America’s Top young Scientist award and a sum of $25,000.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The situation is worsening and someone has to do something about it. If the most brilliant scientists on the planet had their brains stifled, then the kids have to step up.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hannah Herbst, a 15-year-old from Boca Raton, Florida has developed a unique method to harvest energy from oceanic currents to generate power and drinking water for the developing countries. She designed an energy probe from a 3D-printed propeller which is connected by a  pulley inside a plastic PVC pipe to a hydroelectric generator.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The device produces electricity by converting the mechanical energy from the ocean currents. Testing her indigenous device in the Boca Raton Intracoastal Waterway (on the incoming currents of Atlantic Ocean), she was able to light a set of LED lights.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The total cost of this setup was just $12 and as per Hannah’s calculations, if the model is scaled up it could harvest enough energy to charge three car batteries in one hour. The device is specifically targeted for the developing countries she says, as the energy is sufficient to power salt desalination pumps to produce fresh water.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="Hannah-Herbst won-America's-Top-young-Scientist" height="438" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Hannah-Herbst-won-Americas-Top-young-Scientist.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For this achievement, Herbst, a 9th grader, was awarded $25,000 and the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist” at 3M Innovation Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, that was the best project, but her competitors were equally brilliant as well. Raghav Ganesh who is in 8th grade won the second prize for his machine that could check the physiological and environmental factors which can trigger meltdowns in people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Another amazing invention was that of a seventh grader, Amulya Garimella who won the third prize was designing a system that keeps a check on the brainwaves and alerts the user whenever he/she is distracted ( I could use that one).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The fourth prize went to Iris Gupta, another seventh grader who devised a technique to prevent allergic reactions by blocking the allergens through nano-particles.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, isn’t this amazing that the kids nowadays are actually working for the social cause and inspiring hundreds after them unlike few grown-ups in power? Tell us your views in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

America’s Top Young Scientist: 9th Grader Wins $25k For Harvesting Energy From Ocean

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Here’s How Hackers Can Control Your Entire Digital Life in Minutes

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="you-are-not-safe-hack" height="373" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/you-are-not-safe-hack.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Continuing our “steps to effective security” series, we are here with a true story that tells about the basic security precautions we forget to take and risk our digital lives. Read this article and stay informed.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the previous articles, I described the ways to protect yourself from hackers and how to detect if you’re hacked. Continuing my steps to effective security series, I’m here to tell you a true story.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Very often, people using less technology in their lives, assume that they are not as prone to cyber threats as compared to the people using smart devices at home, storing every gram of their data in the cloud, and managing a circus of social networking accounts. People think that if they’are not active online, there’s no chance of being targeted by a hacker and facing some hacking attack.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To break this notion, recently The <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/14/hackers-prove-they-can-pwn-the-lives-of-those-not-hyperconnected/?_r=0" target="_blank">New York Times</a> conducted an experiment that involved Mrs. Walsh, a grandmother of six, who volunteered to allow two hackers to try and hack her home. And wait for it- she doesn’t consider herself to be a very digital person. So, she’s kind of invincible, right?</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mrs. Patty Walsh tells that her home isn’t equipped with the so-called army of the modern day “smart-devices.” However, she has a Facebook page, but she doesn’t like posting personal things about herself. She mentions, “I don’t post things about myself and don’t really understand why other people do.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But, that single Facebook account was enough for the hackers to uncover her entire digital life. Even though it was comparatively locked and here privacy settings were intact, the hackers found her Facebook account days before visiting her house.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The hackers noticed that Mrs. Walsh had liked a page maintained by Change.org and thus they got their first passage into her life. In just 10 minutes, they created a fake email from Change.org and fooled her into signing a fake petition via e-mail.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The link in the e-mail led Mrs. Walsh to a malicious page, where she was asked to enter her mail, address, and password. Well, to save her from some actual harm, the hackers used a service called Phish5 that doesn’t store the passwords and just tests the phishing cons in the wild.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most of the times we commit the blunder of using te same password again and again at multiple places to avoid confusion. But, this could prove fatal just in case any one of those accounts is compromised. Same was the case with Mrs. Walsh and she later confessed the fact that she was using the same password across all her accounts.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="welcome-hackers-security-1" height="426" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/welcome-hackers-security-1.jpg" width="640" /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Later, when the hackers visited her home, she greeted them warmly. On a heart-shaped chalkboard, “Welcome Hackers” was written on the front door. Inside the house, Reed Loden, the 27-year-old director of security of HackerOne, a San Francisco security start-up, and Michiel Prins, the 25-year-old co-founder of HackerOne, were welcomed with sandwiches, iced tea and deviled eggs.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mrs. Walsh was surprised to see that the hackers didn’t fit the images she had in her mind and they even ended their sentences with “thank you, ma’am.” She said, “They’re very polite.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They had earlier compromised her online life by just a fishing mail attack and now it was the turn of her home. The hackers soon found a way to open her garage door using  a brute force attack.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They also found ways to intercept her TV using its I.P. address and were able to control the television remotely. Doing something that Mrs. Walsh didn’t approve, hackers bought a three-hour package of a set of adult cable channels. Mrs. Walsh said, “What’s so wrong about getting into my TV. I can see how that would be a little shocking to guests.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now it was the turn of her PC and by compromising her router, hackers were able to control the internet. They also accessed Mrs. Walsh’s and her daughter’s mail accounts as the browser was set to auto-fill the passwords. Hackers used their access to send her daughter a mail: “Reminder: Change my password.”</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">They also gained access to her PayPal accounts, here Social Security number, her insurance information, here air miles account and they even accessed her power of attorney forms.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After scanning her PC, the hackers found about 20 malicious spyware programs, including a Bitcoin miner. The other programs were DefaultTab, FunWebProducts, SearchProtect, SlimCleaner and Supreme Savings, that being were used to spy on her browsing and serve annoying ads.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Later, the hackers sat down for a debriefing with Mrs. Walsh, where they outlined the critical points and asked her to change all the passwords and use a password manager. She was also advised to use the two-step authentication and told how to beware of the phishing attacks.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She was also advised to switch on the automatic updates on her phone and PC to keep them updated with latest security fixes. Later, she invited both of them to the upcoming Thanksgiving dinner.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mrs. Walsh committed some mistakes that are very common, but it’s very easy to avoid them. Well, this isn’t a story that seems very strange or surprising. This can happen to everybody, including you</span></div> </div>

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Future Of Professions: Robo Doctor, Machine Lawyer and AI Architect

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="AI-robot-artificial-intelligence-human" height="361" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/AI-robot-artificial-intelligence-human.png" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Artificial Intelligence is exploding on the scene today. What would be its impacts on the future of professions? Could we be seeing a new crop of doctors, lawyers, and architects?</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The popular notion that machines are better off doing mechanized work and humans will always triumph the intellectual arena could be in a process of taking a serious hit in near future. Thanks to the rapid advancement in Artificial Intelligence, the machines today are not just the pile driving and hammering skeletons of metal but have crept in almost all spheres of human life.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, machines taking over is still and always be a contentious topic (until we reach a tipping point) but robots showing self-awareness, self-driving vehicles, our regular digital assistants (Siri and Cortana) are a few examples that robots have not just eased humans from the industrial repetition but also from other employment avenues as well.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Richard Susskind, UK government advisor along with his son Daniel Susskind, a lecturer at Oxford University have authored an upcoming book The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts. In the book, they have drawn a conclusion based on economic and sociological theory after interviewing hundreds of people that Artificial Intelligence will dramatically transform the middle-class working landscape.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, if that is anything near to the truth, then it could be as worse as an AI coup. Since the machines are now able to grasp chess and become a grandmaster in just 72 hours, the general wondering that how soon they will enter into the operation theaters, courtrooms, or become a consulting architect.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Susskinds believe that only the best and the most skilled professionals in all fields will survive this replacement tide. And as it has always been, Darwin will again come into account in this battle of species.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The doubts that, “will robots be able to perform such intricate tasks which require phenomenal cognizance, perception, intellect and of course, ethical integrity” will definitely be on the minds of people. No one would mind robots fighting for their country on the battlefront, but everyone would be skeptical of a machine operating on them, or trusting a robot to win their case. Worse, how would you make a robot understand what style of house you want.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Only if a robot could read our minds, right? But listen to this, AI is now capable of prognosticating. So you won’t have to guide them much with instructions.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now as for their capability, machines could get the information and gain all the knowledge pertaining to a subject in a matter of time (much less than it takes for a human to become an expert). The robot could study and infer from all the case studies, learn all the operative methods and do it with precision as well, and build exquisite designs for you (it would even know if the ground you have chosen is safe or not and design according to that!!).</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Susskinds mentions that humans have long been the “gatekeepers” of the knowledge and not everyone has been benefitted by this fact. The selectivity in disseminating the information hurts a major strata of people. So, robots coming into the picture might be welcomed. No doubt, it would raise concerns over employment.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The progress in AI development will only gain momentum in coming years. Since we have significant information on the subject, what do you think should be the human strategy for the future?</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Feel free to join the discussion via the comments section below.</span></div> </div>

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Is It “Windowception”? Windows in Windows Within Your Windows

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="windows-10-nested-virtualization" height="432" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/windows-10-nested-virtualization.jpg" width="640" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>The latest Windows 10 Insider preview is coming with nested virtualization or Windowception. Read more about the Windows in Windows within your Windows.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Running a virtual machine for various testing purposes is just another task for the developers. But, have you ever used a virtual machine inside a virtual machine? More like Windows in Windows within your Windows PC?</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Does it remind you of the layered dreams from the movie Inception? Well, I’m calling it Windowception – the latest Window 10 Insider Preview comes with the nested virtualization support. This means, you can run Windows in Windows within your Windows.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that the company is building nested virtualization that will allow people to run  Hyper-V Containers in Hyper-V virtual machines. Though the company hasn’t yet released Hyper-V containers, for the time being you can try out this feature with Hyper-V virtualization.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This feature virtualizes certain hardware features that are required to run a hypervisor in a virtual machine. Nested virtualization exposes hardware virtualization support to guest virtual machines. This allows you to install Hyper-V in a guest virtual machine, and create more virtual machines “within” that underlying virtual machine.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Nested virtualization exposes hardware virtualization support to guest virtual machines. This allows you to install Hyper-V in a guest virtual machine, and create more virtual machines “within” that underlying virtual machine,” Microsoft writes on its blog.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To know more about this feature and use the nested virtualization, visit <a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2015/10/13/windows-insider-preview-nested-virtualization.aspx" target="_blank">Windows Blog.</a></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did you like this article? Tell us in the comments.</span></div> </div>

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5 Free PDF Password Remover Software to Crack Any Protected File

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="password-pdf-crack" loading="lazy" src="http://d2brer6wwumtdu.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/password-pdf-crack.jpg" /></i></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>SP's: </b>Forgetting PDF passwords is something that happens to us all the time. In this article, I’m here with the 5 best free PDF password remover software that will help you instantly. Take a look.</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Password protected PDF files add an extra layer of security to your documents. But, what if you forget the PDF password and you urgently need to access its content? Well, you are at right place as in this article, I’m going to tell you about the 5 best PDF password remover software to crack any protected file.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For those who don’t know, a PDF password remover tool is a computer program that is used to remove or bypass the security layers that don’t allow you to open the password protected PDF files.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">On the internet, you’ll come across various programs with names PDF password crackers, password recovery tools/software or password reset tools. Don’t worry, all these have different names, but they perform a similar function.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Also read: How to Crack WinRAR Password Protected Files In Simple Steps</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you search online, you’ll come across plenty of PDF password remover software, but most of them cost you some chunk of money. Here, I’m going to tell you the 5 best and free PDF password remover software that you can use to recover your forgotten password.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Disclaimer: Use these tools to remove the passwords from the files you own and you’ve forgotten their password. Don’t use them for illegal purposes.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I’ll be telling you the benefits and limitations of each tool and which kind of methods these tools employ to break the security of PDF files.:</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">1. PDFCrack:</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">PDFCrack is my favorite PDF password remover software. It’s a password recovery tool that recovers the forgotten password and helps you to access the hidden content.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It recovers both the user and owner passwords from the password protected files. For those who don’t know, user passwords just restrict the opening of documents and owner passwords put restrictions like printing, changing, copying, comments etc.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This PDF password remover software works fine with PDF files up to version 1.6 protected with 128-bit RC4 encryption. The PDFCrack software deploys brute-force attack to recover the password.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our rating: 4.5/5</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Download here: <a href="http://blog.rubypdf.com/pdfcrack/" target="_blank">PDFCrack</a></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2. PDF Password Remover</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">PDF Password Remover is a simple tool that removes the PDF owner passwords and works with a simple interface.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The PDF Password Remover software works with PDF files up to version 1.7 level 8 files protected with 128-bit RC4 encryption. This tool is easy to use but it doesn’t work with the PDF files with a user password and higher levels of encryption.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our rating: 4/5</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Download here: <a href="http://www.pdf-technologies.com/pdf-library-password-recovery.aspx" target="_blank">PDF Password Remover</a></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3. PDF Unlocker</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This PDF password remover software is a basic Windows program designed to unlock a file protected with encryption. This tool is helpful if you just want to break the permission security in the PDF, but it doesn’t remove the user password unless you know it.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">PDF Unlocker supports and unlocks PDF files up to version 1.7 level 8 with 128-bit AES encryption.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Actually it’s a PDF password recovery tool as it discovers the actual owner password and you can use a brute-force or a dictionary password attack method.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our rating: 3.5/5</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Download here: <a href="http://www.appnimi.com/" target="_blank">PDF Unlocker</a></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">4. PDFCrypt</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">PDFCrypt is the fifth tool on our free PDF password remover software list. It’s a simple command-line PDF password remover tool that performs the task instantly.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It should be noted that it’s a password remover software and it won’t tell you the user or owner password.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our rating: 3.5/5</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Download here: <a href="http://soft.rubypdf.com/software/pdfcrypt" target="_blank">PDFCrypt</a></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <h4 style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">5. PDFMate Free PDF Merger</span></h4> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I’ve included this free PDF password remover software as apart from cracking the passwords, it works as a PDF joiner, PDF combiner and an image to PDF converter.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With this free software, you can delete the unwanted pages and rearrange them in the desired order in high speed and accuracy.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The software also works as a PDF encrypter and offers you the option to protect your PDF files and set a password.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our rating: 3/5</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Download here: <a href="http://www.pdfmate.com/free-pdf-merger.html" target="_blank">PDFMate Free PDF Merger</a></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My Recommendation: I recommend using PDFCrack PDF password remover software as it is 100% free and it performs all the desired functions. However, if you don’t want to download the software and do the job online, <a href="http://freemypdf.com/">FreeMyPDF.com</a> is the ultimate website.</span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Did you find this list helpful? Which tool do you use for PDF password cracking? Tell us in the comments below.</span></div> </div>

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