Microsoft Office 2011 Mac Osx Cracked Update Password

This guide covers cracking a password-protected DOCX file1 created with Word for Mac 2011 (which employs the same protection algorithm as Microsoft Word 2010). It also largely applies to cracking any hash supported by hashcat (MD5, SHA1, NTLM, etc).

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-a 0 = set attack mode to straight / dictionary attack-m 9500 = set hash mode to MS Office 2010--status = automatically update status screen-o found.txt = output recovered password to found.txthash.txt = the hash we saved in step 1.1merged.txt = our wordlist from step 1.3

On May 16, 2011, new images of Office 15 were revealed, showing Excel with a tool for filtering data in a timeline, the ability to convert Roman numerals to Arabic numerals, and the integration of advanced trigonometric functions. In Word, the capability of inserting video and audio online as well as the broadcasting of documents on the Web were implemented.[145] Microsoft has promised support for Office Open XML Strict starting with version 15, a format Microsoft has submitted to the ISO for interoperability with other office suites, and to aid adoption in the public sector.[146] This version can read and write ODF 1.2 (Windows only).[147]

Microsoft has announced the release of the preliminary version of the office suite Office 2019 for the Mac. The new Office for Mac is the first major upgrade package Microsoft Office applications on the platform OS X since the release version of Office 2011. The new version of the program includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook, and also brings a lot of new features, including support for high-resolution displays Retina and full-screen applications. The main focus of her made on standardization and better integration with cloud-based service OneDrive.

While Microsoft updates could be downloaded automatically, you should check and update the software manually if you suspect there's an available update that your device hasn't installed yet. An updated version might just be the solution to Microsoft Word 2011/2013/2016/2019 crashing on Mac:

Note Down the Password - Once the recovery process is completed, you will be able to see the cracked password on your screen. You can take a note of your password so that you do not forget it the next time.

Elcomsoft often writes about "password recovery" and is a member of the Russian Cryptology Association (RCA) and the Computer Security Institute. Yet it is not the only firm that has found flaws in UPEK software. UPEK Protector Suite also came under fire last year when the Vulnerability Laboratory disclosed that the UPEK Protector Suite 2011 was vulnerable to buffer overflow.

Microsoft took its productivity software to a new level with the 2011 release of Office 365. The first time that Word, PowerPoint, and Excel were available as part of a subscription was also the first time. This was a major advantage over previous Office apps that were only updated every few years.

The result means, that it is cracked with 36% chance if the password wasn't changed, and with 31% if it was changed (but the attacker has a fresh shadow file). The difference is significant, and more so, if we take a longer time, 40 intervals, like 20 years:

I would tend to agree that this is primarily a compliance-driven requirement with at best a marginal net increase in security (at, unfortunately, a substantial cost in loss of operational availability, due to otherwise legitimate users being locked out after 90 days, machine-to-machine communications failing because their passwords expired and nobody updated them, calls to the Help Desk to resolve password reset problems and so on).

I personally don't think that enforcing password expiration on office users (or, people hardly familiar with computer use, let alone cyber security) is a good idea in the form as it is done in many organizations. As it was noted above, the major security flaw in this case is that those same office users simply write their passwords on sticky notes and paste them to their screens or stick them in their desks. Or, if the person is slightly more "advanced", they may start using passwords such as letmeinMONTHYEAR.

If reasonably strong passwords are used it doesn't. Passwords might need to be changed regularly if they can eventually be cracked offline if an attacker has managed to extract hashes from the database. However, enforcing password changes seems a weak form of security when users should be encouraged to select strong passwords, for example based on long passphrases.

Without being educated on password security, most users will not choose strong passwords so the 90 days change limit is designed to protect these accounts. As these users do not understand or care about the security of their account, they are likely to choose another weak password possibly based on their old one (which means an attacker can crack the old one and then use variations of that in an online attack). Using the 90 day policy in combination of checking the similarity of the new password with the old one can be seen as helping. Other users' passwords will be more difficult to crack, although if enough time is dedicated by an attacker this is entirely possible - any password with a strength of under 128 bits of entropy means that it has the possibility of it being cracked eventually, although unless an attacker is specifically interested in a particular account, this has a very low probability of occuring.

A further reason for changing your password often is that password storage algorithms such as bcrypt and other key derivation functions have an iteration count, that can be upped to increase the work factor as Moore's Law takes hold. Entering a new password gives opportunity for the password hash to be resaved with more iterations, or that the entire hashing algorithm be updated as the security posture of the system increases. For example, if the site was originally storing cleartext passwords, then migrated to SHA-1, then SHA-1 with salt, then eventually bcrypt, the act of changing the password often is used as an opportunity to update the stored format for this user within the database.

Note that a password change isn't technically required, just that many systems will rewrite the password to storage at this point, however they could also do this upon successful login because the cleartext password will also be available at this point. Forcing a password change will help in these instances, and also has the advantage that if there were any undiscovered password leakage vulnerabilities on the site (e.g. SQL injection) then the password will have been changed to something more secure as well as the hashing format being updated. Note that forcing a password change doesn't help update inactive accounts, which is why some standards dictate that inactive accounts are disabled after a period of time (e.g. PCI after 90 days) - if password is also stored in some format in the DB it is also recommended that this be blanked in case the user has reused it elsewhere and it is later leaked. 2ff7e9595c