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My password is 8-10 characters long. It starts with a capital letter and ends with a number. How do I set these conditions to crack the password using your software?

In our products, password parameters are configured in the Extended Mask mode (the same principle applies to all programs, and we are using

How to Break Password Protected Excel File

What’s the advantage of expensive Excel password recovery applications over their cheaper analogs, and when this advantage doesn’t matter? When you need only a web browser to recover a...

How to Print a Password-Protected PDF Without the Password

You can’t print a secured PDF file unless you have the Permissions password (also called the Master password). Printing is just one of several actions that are restricted by the permissions pa...

Recovering a password for a TrueCrypt disk

Step-by-step instructions to recover passwords to TrueCrypt disk drives. Here you will learn how to extract the data needed to find passwords for encrypted disks and learn how to save time when rec...

How to Set, Remove and Recover the Password For an Excel File

Would you like to set or remove a password for Excel file, yet you have no idea how to do it? Do you need to remove file protection, but you lost your password? Or maybe you’re just curious ab...

How to Create a Unicode Dictionary for Dictionary Attacks

All you need is Windows Notepad. 1. Run Notepad. Press “Start” button and type “notepad” for Windows to find and highlight the program. Click to run Notepad: Use any te

How We Cracked an 18-Character Password in Excel 2010 in Under Two Minutes

Among our customers there was one who could not open an Excel 2010 file due to a lost password. We tried to help and it worked perfectly well. It took us about 90 seconds. Here’s how we did ...

Extended Mask attack when the structure and symbols of the password are known

Our customer asks: «I know the structure of my password and symbols it is composed of. Here is the PDL (Password Definition Language) description: [gG] [oO0] [oO0] [dD] [\. \0] [tT] [iI1]...

Offsets for recovery of passwords for TrueCrypt

Recently we released Passcovery Suite 3.3, and in addition to support for NVIDIA Pascal architecture, announced more convenient operat

Will I obtain acceleration of password breaking on a CPU with AES-NI (AES hardware support)?

A user has asked : ¨I am now breaking passwords on a CPU without AES hardware support. If I replace it with a CPU with AES/AES-NI support, will breaking be accelerated? And will this acceler...

TrueCrypt Password Recovery Using Passcovery Suite Command Line

Like our other programs, Passcovery Suite allows for Command Line Launch and Attack Fine Tuning. The program opens with a graphic interface and all necessary settings and immediately begins a pass...

Extended (positional) mask attack in Passcovery solutions

Successful recovery of a strong password is determined by the high speed of attack and effective management of range settings. Passcovery programs with finely tuned speed parameters show excellent ...

LibreOffice Error Corrupts Password Protection in Excel XLS Files

AccessBack.com began to receive strange xls-files – the user enters the correct password but Microsoft Excel does not accept it, and our service can’t find the encryption key for such files. What i...

How to Recover a RAR Password If Only Half Is Readable

Here’s a question posted at reddit HowToHack. A user is wondering how to crack his RAR file. An

How to Recover a Lost ZIP Password with Extended Mask Attack

A user asked help desk to solve a problem: “there is a zip file with the password lost. The password is about 10 characters long, beginning with a string of digits (12805233), the rest is unkn...

How To Lock/Unlock, Remove Password Protection From PDF Files

You might want to apply a document open password or a document permissions password to your PDF file. Or maybe you need to open, copy and print out a password protected PDF file. Or you might just w...

How to Recover an OpenOffice Password with Dictionary Attack

Here’s a problem: a user forgot his password for a file created in OpenOffice Writer.

2 Ways to Regain Access to iTunes Backup when the Password Is Lost

You’ve had a bad day and lost the password to your iPhone/iPad backup file in iTunes? Don’t get frustrated and join the crowd. Every day someone forgets their passwords and online forums...

How to Recover Passwords from Multiple Files Using Passcovery Programs

Sometimes we may need to recover more than one password at the same time. One of our users is having a tough time recovering his 5 RAR files. In this video you’ll see how to pull this off. In t...

A Case of Success: Apple iOS 10.2-13.x Backup Password Recovery Using Mutated Dictionary Attack

The release of Apple iOS 10.2 has enormously increased the amount of calculations and time required to complete brute force attack. Because of lowered speed

How to Remove Restrict Editing in Word Without the Password

Restrict Editing in Word comes off instantly — no matter how long or complex the password is. It isn't encryption, it's a flag in the document's settings: a program just deletes it in a second, no...

How to Unlock an Excel File, Whether You Know the Password or Lost It

An Excel password unlocker is a program for recovering lost Microsoft Excel passwords — and a good one needs a few must-have features: support for every version of Microsoft Excel instant recovery...

How to Crack, Break or Just Remove a Forgotten Excel Password for Free/a Fee

In this article, you’ll learn how to recover an Excel password, unprotect a worksheet, and regain access to a password-protected Excel files of any version, from Excel 2 to Excel 2024 and Micros...

How to Remove a PDF Passwords. 2 Free/Paid Methods and One Bonus

Password protection on a PDF is great when you need to protect private information. But when you’re actively using a locked PDF, having to frequently enter a password gets annoying. And if the passw...

Zip and RAR Password Recovery in 2026: Tools and Practical Techniques

Zip and RAR archives are among the most widely used containers for storing and moving large amounts of data in compressed form. The convenience, security, and reliability they offer in passw...

How to Unlock a Word File When You Know the Password and When It Got Lost

Word Password Unlockers is a whole class of software tools to recover access to Microsoft Word files when the password is forgotten or lost. These are the mandatory characteristics of a decent...

5++ Methods to Crack a PDF Password and Unlock a PDF File. All Password Attacks

A forgotten or lost Document Open Password for a PDF document can become a problem. It is impossible to open a password protected file without entering the password. Learn all about the methods of...

How to Open, Remove, or Recover a Password for RAR and Zip Archives

It's a popular question. It keeps coming up, here and there, in all kinds of contexts. And the context is exactly what shapes the answer. What kind of archive is it: Zip or RAR? Do y...

How to Decrypt an Excel File Online When the Password Is Lost

Looking for an easy and tried-and-tested way to remove a forgotten Excel password? It's right here. You are about to learn how to decrypt an Excel file online without additional software or specia...