I remember very clearly how hot was the attempt worldwide to crack Hotmail passwords a few years back especially in the late 90s. Even I attempted it (though won’t tell you whether I was successful) and so did many thousands. Unlike today, everyone back then used Hotmail, so getting an online girlfriend/boyfriend etc by hook or crook was really on the agenda of thousands of internet users.



This post in Being Paranoid gives you ten useful ways through which your life-long dream to do that.



The ten methods are:



1. Trying basic passwords

2. Trying passwords used in other sites

3. Social engineering

4. Keyboard logging

5. Passwords stored at ISP

6. Sniffing

7. Recovering it from another account

8. Breaking into the user’s computer

9. Bruteforce

10. Stealing files with NetBIOS



For how to do it, click on the links here in Being Paranoid.



Happy Cracking!



Thanks Being Paranoid