Recovers passwords from pixelized screenshots.
This implementation works on pixelized images that were created with a linear box filter.
In this article I cover background information on pixelization and similar research.
Requires that the user supply a De Bruijn sequence of characters that could be expected to appear in the obfuscated text.
It won't be perfect but it'll probably get you within spitting distance.
A utility which can be used to recover the passphrase for a PGP or GnuPG key.
A list of all bootable Linux Live CDs, updated periodically.
A utility for Windows XP and Vista that makes it easy to reinstall your system because it hunts down and packages up every device driver installed on your system, zips them up, and asks you to save them off somewhere. After the reinstall, DriverMax will help you reinstall them.
A free utility for Windows that extracts your wireless keys in case you forget them.
A freeware utility which clones most any hard drive block by block to another device. Possibly crypto agnostic.
A short tutorial on recovering a damanged EXT2 or EXT3 file system in a Linux machine by referencing one of the backup superblocks.
dumpe2fs /dev/sda2 | grep superblock- Check and repair a Linux file system using one of the alternate superblocks:
fsck -b 32768 /dev/sda2 - Try to mount file system.
A free utility which extracts text from damaged Microsoft Word files, which can then be saved into a new file.
An open source hard disk cloning/bare metal backup and restoration system. Bootable CD or USB device. Drop it in, reboot, and duplicate or push hard disk images across the network.
Data forensics software for Windows. Useful for finding lost and hidden data by examining disk sectors directly, not file system extents. Free to download and use. Supports Windows 95 through Windows XP.
An archive of free-to-download and use disk images for practicing your data forensics fu or testing file carving tools.
A utility for analyzing .pdf documents to extract older changes to the text and view previous editions (good for un-redaction?) as well as scrubbing the document history so that no one else can do the same thing to your docs.
An excellent blog post on what to do if your MySQL database server isn't working right because an InnoDB table has been corrupted. I've used this process myself and it works like a charm. Knowledge of MySQL in particular and RDBMSes in general is required.
How to recover files that have accidentally been deleted with 'svn delete'.
To recover a file from svn that you deleted from your local repository, it’s first necessary to get the proper name of the file, and the revision of the repository it last existed in. To do that (assuming you don’t know, because if you do you have bigger issues), you go to the directory it was in (or as close as you can get to the directory it was in) and run:
svn log --verbose
You should be able to find the file you’re looking for and the revision you need in the output of that command. Assuming your file’s name is ‘file.txt’ and it was in revision 250, you run the following to recover it:svn up -r 250 file.txt
Done.
Microsoft has opened its own software archive of downloadable Windows .iso installation images. If you have an original retail product key but don't have the installation media, you can download a copy of Windows 7 to rebuild. Please note that this might not work on OEM systems, which bundle their own clusters of drivers and have unique registration codes.
A utility that lets you edit disks and recover data, including entire partitions. Supports multiple operating systems.
A utility that cracks BIOS passwords.