Secrets Viewer

Practicing good cybersecurity habits can be a rather difficult task when most experts recommend employing different passwords for each account made for any online service. Once coupled with certain email providers’ mandatory requirements that include inserting special, lower and uppercase characters to make it harder to guess from an attacker’s point of view, keeping track of them can feel increasingly harder.

Some less tech-savvy folks are tempted to leave behind email accounts they can no longer get into, especially when the recovery steps get stricter for security’s sake. When the only remaining logged-in instance of an account is on an older device, programs such as Secrets Viewer should come in handy to extract passphrases stored locally through the Outlook app’s Protected Storage section.

While Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been retired and replaced with Edge to provide Windows users with a snappier browsing experience, IT personnel seeking to recover clients’ credentials may find good use in the program’s focus on displaying them in HEX format for further decryption processing, in case the web navigator instance is unresponsive due to daily-driving an OS version on outdated and rapidly aging hardware.