Security

My grandfather has an hp windows vista computer that s been sitting in the office untouched for a few years. He s forgotten the password and doesn t have the disk to recover it either. Is there any way to get into the computer and change the password without resetting the whole computer? We want to get the pictures and videos off it.

Best answer: NordVPN is very good. Surely one of the best out there.

Best answer: Hacking is not always illegal. There are different kinds of hackers: white hat hackers who hack for good, black hat hackers who hack for illegal/malicious purposes, and grey hat hackers who hack for fun, usually borderline legal.

This guy sounds like a grey hat hacker. Don't report him just ignore him. A black hat would never "out" himself openly like that. He might not even be a proper hacker, just a loser who pretends to be.

True story: Once, in a hotel room, I was using my ipad, with the hotel's wifi, listening to some ice-skating music on youtube, and, to my dismay, the music stopped, I looked on my screen, and there was some message on my screen saying "you're gay"...... okay, very immature, but obviously this was intentional, someone hacked it...... how? do you think a hotel employee could have been behind this or someone outside the hotel? how did they do it?

Best answer: VERY true. They catch at most, half the infections. Your good habits matter a hundred times more than any software.

I was recorded on a page like omegle like 2-3 years ago and i m so scared what can happen to me... I didn t gave any personal data but showed my face... I m so worried what can happen or if the video is on the internet and someone finds it... what should i do?

It is possible that through a website or a web page or private browsing, be spied on by the camera even if it is covered please serious answers !!

Best answer: This is a common attempt at extortion currently. The old password came from a leak that happened in another site and was released publicly or sold on the dark web.

there's not much else you can do except delete the information and change your passwords if any of them remotely look like the one in the email. If you use a variation of the password that is different it is still wise to change it to something completely different as there are tools they can use to try and "fuzz" their way around it.

Best answer: Depends on the scammer, some you can lead along just by talking to them. For ones more pc based " you have a virus on your PC" having an os running in virtualbox can be of use.#

I personalty like just pretending to be the idiot who knows noting "Oh let me start my sons computer, 'omg his desktop is gay porn'" and go from there.

Will it suffice to just smash it to bits with a hammer?

I found an old email address I haven't used for years on a hackers list. I can't remember the password to get back into the account and it may have been changed. My security answers were not accepted and must have been changed, What can I do?

Best answer: go take a nap and nnaybe you'll get rid of it when you wake up

Best answer: Apparently a neighbor has hacked into your account through an unsecured internet router that you're using.