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CCM, located in Microsoft Windows' System32 folder, stands for Change and Configuration Management. It's a folder created to store temporary files for client installations as a part of the Systems Management Server (SMS) of Microsoft, which is responsible for deploying system-wide installations and updates. Background SMS was Microsoft's enterprise management software that tracks hardware and software inventories, deploys software applications and updates and manages any software changes in a network environment. By 2007, this has become System Center Configuration Manager, which essentially performs the same tasks as SMS. Process SMS or SCCM centralizes the process of software installation into one management application. When a new software or update needs to be deployed, it creates the CCM folder in all computers until the installation or update finishes. The CCM folder contains the Advance Client Installer (ccmsetup.exe), which is responsible for initiati

Sometimes you end up with a great many Windows domain passwords that need cracking – either because you have compromised the domain controller and exported them yourself, or because the client has asked you to perform a password audit and has supplied the database to you themselves. As you know, LM hashes are insecure, and there is a very good way of cracking these (Ophcrack). However, there will also be passwords that cannot be cracked using the standard tables, or maybe the LM hash is not present in the dump at all. In this case, we’ll need to attack the NTLM hash with another tool – in this case a GPU cracker known as Oclhashcat. In this case we have a large (something like 6,000 entry) pwdump format file, with LM and NTLM hashes. Because the LM hashes have various weaknesses in the cryptography, we can crack a lot of passwords using Ophcrack – but in some cases only NTLM hashes are present. In this case we can use a hybrid approach. find more :  l m hash cracker

Accounting information systems (AIS) simplify financial reporting for purposes of making well-informed decisions. They include all the components of the accounting process: people, procedures, data, software, devices and security. The software is on a device like a computer, and the security is incorporated in the software. People put together procedures and enter data into the accounting software. Types of AIS by Processing Mode Batch processing systems, online batch systems and online real-time systems are the three types of accounting information systems classified by mode of processing. In batch processing systems, you enter transactions when they occur and periodically process and integrate the transactions into the accounting record by running a batch process either daily or weekly. Online batch systems are the same as batch processing systems, except that you record transactions and process batches using online-based accounting software. When using an online real-time s

If you own a Western Digital hard drive, you may be familiar with the WD SmartWare software application. On a fundamental level, WD SmartWare acts as a data backup tool, allowing you to make copies of valuable information and restore access to it as needed. In an era where busy professionals may use multiple external drives and require immediate access to a trove of information, software such as WD SmartWare helps ensure that vital data remains safe and secure at all times. In the event that you are looking for a reliable backup tool to use in combination with your WD drive, you can master the inner workings of WD SmartWare relatively easily. What is WD SmartWare? WD SmartWare is designed to provide users with administrative controls over their external drives. Much like other software backup tools, WD SmartWare provides users with the ability to schedule automated backups at periodic intervals which will take place without requiring user input. This can be particularly valuab

Eight may be a good number at the craps table in Las Vegas, but it is the worst number for a minimum password length. Seven is the best password length, but passphrases may be your best option. (See SecurityFocus.com for details on the weakness of the LanMan password hash.) Because of human nature, a policy that requires "password complexity" and a minimum password length of eight will result in the majority of users picking passwords that are exactly eight characters long. The complexity part -- usually a number or special character -- often ends up as the eighth character of the password. This complex eight-character password becomes two passwords: a seven-character, all-uppercase alphabetical password, and a one-character number or special-character password. When a computer stores the LanMan hash for this password, it first makes the characters uppercase, then chops the password into two, seven-byte halves: "SNOWMAN" and "!" (Note: The LanMa

Nowadays, practically every personal computer is connected in one form or another to a network. There exists of course the biggest network of all —the Internet— but several other types of smaller networks like LANs (local area networks) and enterprise networks also exist. Network operating systems (NOS) serve as gatekeepers to data and applications on all manner of these networks. Network operating systems don't differ too much from the single-processor operating systems almost every computer user is familiar with, says Andrew Tannenbaum in his book "A History of Operating Systems", but they have their own unique, fascinating history. Birth of Networks The concept of data communications between computers began in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when researchers began developing a way of connecting computers and exchanging information by way of packets of data. Soon, the concept of a local area network (LAN) took hold, replacing the previous model of a central com

If you own a Western Digital hard drive, you may be familiar with the WD SmartWare software application. On a fundamental level, WD SmartWare acts as a data backup tool, allowing you to make copies of valuable information and restore access to it as needed. In an era where busy professionals may use multiple external drives and require immediate access to a trove of information, software such as WD SmartWare helps ensure that vital data remains safe and secure at all times. In the event that you are looking for a reliable backup tool to use in combination with your WD drive, you can master the inner workings of WD SmartWare relatively easily. What is WD SmartWare? WD SmartWare is designed to provide users with administrative controls over their external drives. Much like other software backup tools, WD SmartWare provides users with the ability to schedule automated backups at periodic intervals which will take place without requiring user input. This can be particularly valuab