by Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting Mrs Carol L. Stimmel has taken upon her to start a Computer Forensic Volunteer Project to provide low-cost services to those who cannot assert advantage from our skills. Here is a bit taken from the press release:- “As expert members of the international computer forensics community which provides unique and […]
by Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting The index.dat is a file which contains the list of the websites that one has visited. It comes from “indexing” which is used to speed up query responses. The autocomplete feature in Internet Explorer compares the addresses to the index.dat to find an appropriate match. The size and life of […]
Securing your passwords against Rainbow Table Attacks By Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting In the previous article we looked at the Rainbow Tables and how it can crack windows passwords in a matter of seconds. In this article we will look at different ways to add complexity to the passwords and protocols to secure your system […]
By Bhushan Shah, NII Consulting Windows passwords are stored in the registry (encrypted) in the form of a hash. LMHash was the first hash function used by Microsoft to secure their passwords. Eventually when the security issues popped up (as LMHash is quite insecure) they had to come up with NLTM and the most recent […]
