Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using dictionary and brute force attacks, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
Changes in this version:

• Added Abel64.exe and Abel64.dll to support hashes extraction on x64 operating systems.
• Added x64 operating systems support in NTLM hashes Dumper, MS-CACHE hashes Dumper, LSA Secrets Dumper, Wireless Password Decoder, Credential Manager Password Decoder, DialUp Password Decoder.
• Added Windows Live Mail (Windows 7) Password Decoder for POP3, IMAP, NNTP, SMTP and LDAP accounts.
• Fixed a bug of RSA SecurID Calculator within XML import function.
• Executables rebuilt with Visual Studio 2008.

via Cain & Abel 4.9.32 released.

The order, issued Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge James Ware in the northern district of California, also requires Google to disclose the Gmail account holder’s identity and contact information. The Gmail user hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing.

The ruling stems from a monumental error by the Wilson, Wyo.-based Rocky Mountain Bank. On Aug. 12, the bank mistakenly sent names, addresses, social security numbers and loan information of more than 1,300 customers to a Gmail address. When the bank realized the problem, it sent a message to that same address asking the recipient to contact the bank and destroy the file without opening it. No one responded, so the bank contacted Google to ask for information about the account holder.

In keeping with its privacy policy, Google told the bank it would have to get a court order to obtain such data. The bank then filed papers asking a court to order Google to disclose the information and deactivate the account.

via MediaPost Publications Judge Orders Google To Deactivate User’s Gmail Account 09/25/2009.

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I’ve been using a Nuvi 250 for a while now, but I think this one might be a better device.

For a while I’ve been using Facebook’s API and Facebook Query Language (FQL) via Perl’s WWW::Facebook::API module to run fairly innocent queries on my friends. If I visit a town, I’d like a reminder of who lives there. If I want to go rock-climbing, it helps if I can easily search to see which of my friends share that hobby. This is good, innocent stuff, and makes me glad to be a developer.

Last week I decided to play with event searches. If a large number of my friends are attending an event, there’s a good chance I’ll find it interesting, and I’d like to know about it. FQL makes this sort of thing really easy; in fact, finding all your friends’ events is on their Sample FQL Queries page.

Using the example provided by Facebook, I dropped the query into my sandbox, and looked at the results which came back. The results were disturbing. I didn’t just get back future events my friends were attending. I got everything they had been invited to: past and present, attending or not.

I didn’t sleep well that night. I didn’t expect Facebook to share past event info. I didn’t expect it to share info when people had declined those events. I haven’t found any way of retrieving friends’ past events using Facebook’s website, but using FQL made it easy. Somehow, implicitly, I thought old events would fade away, only viewable to those who already knew about them. I didn’t expect them to stick around for my code to harvest, potentially years into the future.

Finding my friends’ old events crossed a moral boundary I honestly didn’t expect to encounter. Without intending, I really felt like I was snooping. It didn’t matter that these friends had agreed to share this information under the Facebook terms and conditions. I would personally feel uncomfortable with this much information being so readily available, and assume my friends would feel the same.

However my accidental crossing of moral boundaries wasn’t the only thing that kept me awake last night. I was also kept awake by wondering just how much information could I tease out of the Facebook API. What could I discover? What if I were evil?

Read the rest of this great article on  PJF’s Pages – Journal – Dark Stalking on Facebook.