How to recover saved passwords from MS Edge/Google Chrome. After reading this blogpost, you’ll think twice when Google Chrome and/or MS Edge asks you to save your password after registering on a website. When saving the username and password, both MS Edge and Google Chrome store the URL, username and password in an encrypted file, called Login Data, found in…
Category: Security
How to install and configure UFW – Uncomplicated FireWall
When hosting your own home-environment, you probably have some services exposed to the internet (webserver, mail,…). Good practice when exposing your server to the internet, is installing a firewall. In this case we will install and configure UFW on Debian 12. Installing UFW: sudo apt update sudo apt install ufw Setting up UFW Defaults: First we are going to deny…
Recovering WiFi passwords in Windows
Microsoft has a CLI-tool available in Windows to configure and administer networking. The tool is called netsh.exe. Companies might want to disable the tool trough the Group Policy Editor, because users with administrative access might be able to access all SSID’s and their corresponding passwords. Write up: How to use netsh.exe to get a list of WiFi profiles on your…