Contents • • • • New • New • New • • • • • • • • • New • • • • New • • • • • New • • • • • • • • New • • • Updated • • • Updated • • • Updated • • New • • • • • • • New • • • New • • • New • • • • New • Updated Introduction In today's Internet driven world, all of us use one or other applications starting from browsers, mail clients to instant messengers. Most of these applications store the sensitive information such as user name, password in their private location using proprietary methods.
This prevents hassle of entering the credentials every time during the authentication. Some applications take utmost care to secure your login passwords but most apps use simple methods or rather obscure methods to store the passwords which can easily expose your secrets to spyware running in the background or anyone who has access to your system.
In this context, this article is going to expose the secret password storage location and encryption mechanism by most of the popular applications. It is also going to present the pointers on how one can uncover such passwords using the free password tools developed by us. Password Secrets of Windows Applications Here is the list of popular applications falling into various categories such as Internet browsers, Email clients, Instant Messengers etc whose password secrets are exposed below. Internet Browsers Avant is an emerging ultra-fast web browser bringing new level of clarity and efficiency to your browsing experience. It stores all the web login passwords in the file named 'forms.dat' at below location [Windows XP] C: Documents and Settings Application Data Avant Profiles.default formdata [Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8] C: Users Appdata Roaming Avant Profiles.default formdata Web login urls and passwords are stored in an encrypted format protected by 32 byte key stored in a file 'forms.dat.vdt'.
Key is encrypted using unknown algorithm and stored in BASE64 format. Related Tools: Comodo Dragon is a fast and versatile Internet Browser based on Chromium, with greater level of security & privacy.
It stores all the web login passwords in the sqlite database file called 'Login Data' at below location [Windows XP] C: Documents and Settings Local Settings Application Data Comodo Dragon User Data Default [Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8] C: Users Appdata Local Comodo Dragon User Data Default It uses same storage format and encryption mechanism as Google Chrome browser. You can use to automatically recover all the stored login passwords by Comodo Dragon browser.
Related Tools:, CoolNovo (formerly ChromePlus) (formerly Chrome Plus) is an emerging Chromium based web browser. It stores all the web login passwords in the sqlite database file called 'Login Data' at below location [Windows XP] C: Documents and Settings Local Settings Application Data MapleStudio ChromePlus User Data Default [Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8] C: Users Appdata Local MapleStudio ChromePlus User Data Default It uses same storage format and encryption mechanism as Google chrome. You can use to automatically recover all the stored login passwords by CoolNovo browser. How to update microsoft word for mac 2011.
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Related Tools:, Firefox Firefox with version 3.5 and earlier stores the sign-on passwords in the 'signons.txt' file located in its profile directory. With version 3.5 onwards Firefox started storing the sign-on passwords in Sqlite database file named 'signons.sqlite'.
The passwords stored in this sign-on file are encrypted using Triple-DES followed by BASE64 encoding mechanism. Here is the default location of Firefox profile directory, [Windows XP] C: Documents and Settings Application Data Mozilla Firefox Profiles.default [Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8] C: Users AppData Roaming Mozilla Firefox Profiles.default To know how and what information is stored in this encrypted sign-on file, refer to.
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