Cracking Weak Vista Passwords with With Ophcrack & Cain

Have you ever read any article about a company losing a laptop? Then somewhere in that article the company claims that the computer is protected with a password. This is exactly why that sentence doesn't matter...unless the data or the whole file system is encrypted. But even then the data is at risk, but it is less of a risk.

Virtual/cyber security is useless without physical security. If the hacker physically owns your computer...it isn't your computer anymore and neither is the data.

Check out this video over at IronGeek for all the illustrated glory.

IronGeek - Cracking Windows Vista Passwords With Ophcrack And Cain