Passwords are the first security bulwark of our online accounts and our technological devices, in the form of a series of alphanumeric characters, in the form of a PIN or any word. The password is something that only the owner of the account, computer or phone needs to know and should follow some specific security requirements so that it is impossible or at least very difficult to discover.
In this regard, we have seen several ways of creating secure and easy to remember passwords.
The problem with passwords is that they are often forgotten if systems are not used to remember them.
To recover lost or forgotten passwords, however, there are several ways depending on the site, account or device used.
In this article we see the best ways to recover network passwords, those of websites, that of the wifi router, that of the computer, that of the smartphone and, in general, of any device or account .
1) Recover website passwords and online accounts
To recover the password of a web account it is always possible to use the internal procedure of the site itself, which always works on condition that you have access to the email used for registration.
in other articles we have seen how to recover the password of the Facebook account and then also how to recover the Google account and the recovery of an Email account Yahoo, Gmail or Outlook.
The procedure usually requires resetting the password via an automatic link that is received via email on the address used for registration.
In some cases it is also possible to use the telephone number, the oldest password you remember or other personal information.
Less used, however, is the recovery procedure through question with secret answer, because it was deemed ineffective.
To recover website passwords, you can also search for them on your computer .
In particular, if the passwords are stored by the web browser used, it is rather simple to find out the passwords hidden by dots or asterisks.
Going even more specifically, there are tools to display the readable passwords on Chrome.
It is therefore not a question of doing hacker activities and therefore of stealing the passwords of others or of cracking programs but of recovering the forgotten or lost passwords but which are however stored on the PC.
Obviously the possibility of using special programs that go to find the internal areas of the PC and find all passwords stored (also on other people's computers) cannot be overlooked.
In particular, we can point out the Nirsoft Web Browser Passview tool which is used to view the login and password used on websites with Chrome, Firefox and IE.
Always from Nirsoft you can also download ChromePass, a similar tool, to recover passwords saved in Chrome.
2) Recover the password of the Windows PC
The password to access the Windows PC can always be recovered without having to format the computer.
We have several ways to do this, described in three different articles:
- Find the access passwords on Windows PC also as administrator
- Unlock your computer if you forget your Windows password
- Recover Windows 10 password or PIN from the lock screen
The Trinity Rescue Kit program is a program to be used from a USB stick that can reset the administrator password of any PC
3) Recover network and wifi passwords
As for the password of the wifi networks stored on the PC, these are always recoverable on the computer using a program such as WirelessKeyView recovers the wireless network keys (WEP / WPA) stored on the computer.
If that were not enough and for more alternatives, I refer to the general guide to find the WiFi password (if forgotten) on PC, Mac, Android and iPhone.
About this, we saw in another article a working technique to be able to find the password of a wifi network protected with WPA, even if we don't know it and have never used it before.
4) Password recovery of other network network resources
The Nirsoft Network Password Recovery program allows you to recover the passwords of computers connected to the network that have already been accessed through Windows Explorer (with the sharing of resources on the network) and also the remote desktop passwords.
Add this to the fact that Cain & Abel is a bit more complicated to use than other password recovery apps and you have what is, in my book, a rather advanced tool. Check it out if you think it might be useful.
Cain & Abel managed to recover the 10-character password in the Windows XP "Administrator" account in 10 seconds. While it only officially supports Windows XP, 2000 and NT, some users have been fortunate enough to get it running on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
5) Password recovery of mail account and email client
Account data from Microsoft Outlook or other email client programs can be recovered using Mail PassView - Email Password Recovery which also works on Mozilla Thunderbird, Windows live mail, Eudora and Incredimail.
PstPassword v1.11 recovers passwords for access to Outlook .PST files.
6) Router password recovery
To recover the password to access the router, you can try the Nirsoft Router Password Recovery program .
Speaking of routers, we have seen how to find the default password and login for all the Routers which are always the same as the factory settings, if they are not changed by the user.
Nirsoft is a reliable and very old developer, who for years has been developing small and very free computer management tools.
In some cases, especially those for discovering passwords, they can be blocked by the antivirus and should therefore be placed among the exceptions.
This page lists all the Nirsoft tools for recovering your computer password.
The Security Xploded website also provides free downloads of many programs to recover network passwords and websites from Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Facebook, Google,
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