{"id":1800,"date":"2007-07-11T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/unveil-hidden-passwords-in-web-pages\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:51:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:51:41","slug":"unveil-hidden-passwords-in-web-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/unveil-hidden-passwords-in-web-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Unveil hidden passwords in web pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

You probably use a dozen passwords a day, each one for a different purpose: checking email, writing a post for your blog or logging in as registered user for any online service. All these passwords are usually hidden under a line of asterisks to remain safe even if somebody is looking at your screen. But what happens when you forget any of them?<\/p>\n

Well, unless you can retrieve that password in some way, you’re doomed… or maybe not. There’s one last chance to recover that lost password and it’s called Asterisk Key<\/a>. This simple utility scans your system and displays any password found on an opened webpage or web dialog box, even if it’s hidden under asterisks.<\/p>\n

The only downside to this application is that it only works with Internet Explorer. However, Firefox users also have their own trick to recover suddenly forgotten passwords. Go to Tools – Options – Security – Show passwords and you’ll be able to see all the passwords you’ve saved in your web browser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably use a dozen passwords a day, each one for a different purpose: checking email, writing a post for your blog or logging in as registered user for any online service. All these passwords are usually hidden under a line of asterisks to remain safe even if somebody is looking at your screen. But … Continue reading “Unveil hidden passwords in web pages”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337442,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/337442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}