Passwords: Did-you-knowhttps://www.joellipman.com/hardware/passwords-did-you-know.html

15 November 2010 A program called LC4 (formerly L0phtCrack) used by governments and the military boasts being able to crack 90% of user passwords in under 48 hours on a Pentium II/300. Additionally, it claims that it can crack 18% of the passwords in under 10 minutes...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
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Developer's Checklist: Taking over a projecthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/developers-checklist-taking-over-a-project.html

01 March 2011 anyway and use theirs as a guide only) Site Authentication Method(s) (will this need to be rewritten? eg. clear-text passwords) Level of Security Testing (XSS and SQL-Injection at least?) Referenced common files / global assets (especially those used in...

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Migrate Joomla! 1.5.x to 2.5.x+https://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/migrating-from-joomla-15-to-16.html

30 January 2011 been renamed). Save the SQL file, this is now unique to your website and this process. It does not contain usernames or passwords but has the real database names and all website content, so do not redistribute without taking security measures. Run the...

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• Category: Joomla
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Migrate Joomla Users to WordPresshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/wordpress/migrate-joomla-users-to-wordpress.html

03 October 2011 out there and they all seem to have this problem. I'm really keen not to ask all my users to have to change their passwords but that is what the commercial applications are doing. The script to transfer users This is a free solution to at least get your...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Wordpress
• Language: en-GB

mysqldump: Got error: 2049: Connection using old (pre-4.1.1) authentication protocol refused (client option 'secure_auth' enabled) when trying to connecthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/database/mysql/mysqldump-got-error-2049-connection-using-old-pre-4-1-1-authentication-protocol-refused-client-option-secure-auth-enabled-when-trying-to-connect.html

28 July 2014 Someone solved their issue by resetting (or re-issuing) their password which implies there was an issue with pre 4.1.1 passwords and the hashing algorithm: SET session old_passwords = 0; SET PASSWORD for 'youruser' = PASSWORD('yourpassword'); Method #2...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MySQL
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Project Plan for Freelance Websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/project-plan-for-freelance-website.html

25 February 2010 connection instructions (SMTP, POP3 - incoming, outgoing servers) Send Webmail URL Allocate space for mailbox(es) Assign passwords and instructions on changing each password Website Initiation For JoelLipman.Com to do: Download latest Joomla, MediaWiki,...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Web-Development
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Is it a scam? Gumtree.com's warning signshttps://www.joellipman.com/hardware/is-it-a-scam-gumtreecoms-warning-signs.html

12 October 2010 be followed. An email allegedly from «CompanyName» (or another company) asking for your personal details - logins/passwords/credit card details. You get an email that claims to be from «CompanyName» or another company and requests that you reply or...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
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What's the problem? Amusing computer issueshttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/web-development/whats-the-problem-amusing-computer-reports.html

28 April 2011 "Well my colleague who's using that computer is in a meeting but I can login and do this for you". IT Policy: Do not share passwords. It defeats the whole purpose! A media student: "My computer has swallowed my CD-Rom, I put in the disk but when I eject...

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• Category: Web-Development
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Joes FREE Website Thumbnailer (JWT)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-free-website-thumbnailer.html?catid=40

28 June 2011 site). I don't have a newsletter so it's unlikely you'll ever hear from my site. I never email for personal details, passwords etc so if something comes from my site it should only be if you contacted me first :c) FAQs Question What's the...

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• Category: Product Documentation
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Setup a copy of your Joomla websitehttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/setup-a-copy-of-your-joomla-website.html

19 December 2012 created in the previous step. Modify the configuration.php file in the root of the TEST site to reflect the usernames/passwords created in the previous steps. $sitename - I would suffix this with "TEST" so as to quickly distinguish this from your main...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

Joes Password Analyzer (JPA)https://www.joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-password-analyzer-jpa.html?catid=40

03 January 2014 through Obscurity "Security through Obscurity" is always ultimately fallible. This password checker can not guarantee the passwords will be easy to memorize or to type quickly. Companies using certain password systems can even send the login credentials...

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• Category: Product Documentation
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Export Joomla Users scripthttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/export-joomla-users-script.html

28 February 2014 is a FREE OpenSource system, why? Why? I want to move a client's list of Joomla users to a new system which allows the passwords to be in MD5. All I want is a quick bit of code to get all the users out of a Joomla CMS. How? I could just type a query on...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB

Forgotten Super User Password in Joomla 2.5.x - 3.xhttps://www.joellipman.com/articles/cms/joomla/forgotten-super-user-password-in-joomla.html

06 February 2015 set a password using the database tools for super users. Why? It happens to us all, especially me. I like to use different passwords for every site but this came up as a client had lost their super user password. How? This method is reliant on having...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Joomla
• Language: en-GB