{"id":1680,"date":"2021-09-08T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2021-09-08T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T19:53:58","slug":"breaking-into-windows-10-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"Breaking into Windows 10 Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After letting go a technically savvy employee their Laptop came back with all Administrator accounts disabled and we don&#8217;t know the user&#8217;s password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The normal way to handle this is to re-install Windows 10 but there are some files on the Laptop that need to be recovered.  And I wanted to test if an old hacking method still works  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>boot into the Bios and turn off secure boot.  If you don&#8217;t have a Bios password this is as easy as a google search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>insert a stock Window 10 install USB key and boot from it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the steps in the link below as i&#8217;m not adding any info to that<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infopackets.com\/news\/9483\/how-reset-any-password-windows-vista-7-8-10\">https:\/\/www.infopackets.com\/news\/9483\/how-reset-any-password-windows-vista-7-8-10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>useful commands:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>net user me mypassword \/add<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>net localgroup administrators me \/add<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>so yes this still works on modern hardware as long as the Bios is not password protected.<br>your users can make themselves Administrator if they have hardware access and know how to do a google search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After letting go a technically savvy employee their Laptop came back with all Administrator accounts disabled and we don&#8217;t know the user&#8217;s password. The normal way to handle this is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,177],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-hacking","tag-physicalsecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/increasec.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}