Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai
2010
41. Hack Password of any Operating System
How to Hack Password of any Operating System
Today we will learn how to hack and gain the access of a PCs operating system as one thing any hacker should know ishow to hack into login account of any operating system. Major Operating Systems that are used these days are Windows,Linux and Mac. So today I will show you how to hack into these Operating Systems. Are you curious how easy it is forsomeone to gain access to your computer? If so, read on to see the technique one might use to figure out your computerpassword.
So let’s start with the common OS
Windows -
Windows being very popular has a lot of programs available be used to hack the login password. One of themost successful programs is Ophcrack, and it is free. Ophcrack on Slack ware, and uses rainbow tables to solvepasswords up to 14 characters in length. The time required to solve a password? Generally 10 seconds. The expertiseneeded? None.
Simply download the Ophcrack ISO and burn it to a CD (or load it onto a USB drive via UNetbootin). Insert the CD into amachine you would like to gain access press and hold the power button until the computer shuts down. Turn thecomputer back on and enter BIOS at Change the boot sequence to CD before HDD, then save and exit.
The computer will restart and Ophcrack will be loaded. Sit back and watch as it does all the work for your. Write down thepassword it gives you, remove the disc, restart the computer, and log in as if it were you own machine.
You can download OphCrack from the following link:
http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net
There is another hack possible with the same technique using a CD named "Hiren Boot CD" for hacking Windowspassword.
You can download OphCrack from the following link:
http://www.hirensbootcd.net/download.html
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