Password hints easily extracted from Windows 7, 8

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Our recent feature on the growing vulnerability of passwords chronicled the myriad ways crackers extract clues used to guess other people’s login credentials. Add to that list a password reminder feature built in to recent versions of Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

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Story added 22. August 2012, content source with full text you can find at link above.