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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...
Print Secured PDF

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 pass...
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 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 ...
An error in LibreOffice corrupts password protection in xls-files of Microsoft Excel

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 is...
Lifehack: Crack the rest of RAR password if only half is readable

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Mask attack when the length of the password’s tail end is unknown

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 un...
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...
Batch passwords recovery in the Passcovery apps

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 this ...
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 Editing Restrictions in Word without Password?

The Restrict Editing option in Word is one of the options available in Microsoft Office Suite to protect a file against accidental changes. The restriction can be removed instantly, no matter how co...
How to Unlock Excel File when You Do/Don't Know the Password

Excel Password Unlocker is a program to recover or remove lost passwords of Microsoft Excel files that should have a number of mandatory features: supporting all versions of Microsoft Excel in...
How to Crack, Break or Just Remove a Forgotten Excel Password for Free/a Fee

It can be frustrating when you try to open a password-protected resource and suddenly reali
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 pas...
Tools and Tricks for Recovering Zip and RAR Passwords That Actually Work in 2025

Zip and RAR archive files are some of the most commonly used containers for storing and transferring large volumes of information in a compressed format. The convenience, security, and reliability...
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 p...
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 ...
How to Open a Passworded Archive and Remove the Password from It?

One of those frequent questions. It constantly arises here and there, in different contexts. So the answer depends on the context and the following: What type of archive is it: Zip or RAR? ...
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 spec...