Protected Storage Pass View – see contents of Windows Protected Storage

Protected Storage PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored on your computer by Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and MSN Explorer. The passwords are revealed by reading the information from the Protected Storage.

Starting from version 1.60, this utility reveals all AutoComplete strings stored in Internet Explorer, not only the AutoComplete password, as in the previous versions.

This utility can show Outlook passwords, AutoComplete passwords in Internet Explorer (Pre IE7 only, see IE PassView for IE7+), Password-protected sites in Internet Explorer, and MSN Explorer Passwords.

This utility can only show the passwords of the current logged-on user. It cannot reveal the passwords of other users.

Medusa – Parallel Network Login Auditor

Medusa is intended to be a speedy, massively parallel, modular, login brute-forcer. The goal is to support as many services which allow remote authentication as possible.

Modules are available for the following services:

* CVS
* FTP
* HTTP
* IMAP
* MS-SQL
* MySQL
* NetWare NCP
* NNTP
* PcAnywhere
* POP3
* PostgreSQL
* REXEC
* RLOGIN
* RSH
* SMBNT
* SMTP-AUTH
* SMTP-VRFY
* SNMP
* SSHv2
* Subversion (SVN)
* Telnet
* VMware Authentication Daemon (vmauthd)
* VNC
* Generic Wrapper
* Web Form

Obviously you should only use security auditing utilities such as Medusa against computers and networks that you own or have explicit permission to audit.

[Source: Foofus Networking Services web site]

NewSID – changes Windows Security Identifiers (SID)

NewSID is a SysInternals (now owned by Microsoft) utility that changes a computer’s SID. It first generates a random SID for the computer, and proceeds to update instances of the existing computer SID it finds in the Registry and in file security descriptors, replacing occurrences with the new SID. NewSID requires administrative privileges to run. It has two functions: changing the SID, and changing the computer name.

Please note that Microsoft does not support changing the workstation SID using NewSID.  Their official support policy requires changing the SID using sysprep.  For more information on their policy, see KB 314828.