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Intel 'hacker' sentence expunged
News Schwartz was arrested in 1993 after using a program called "Crack" to find out the passwords of various former colleagues in the Intel Supercomputer Systems Division (SSD). Schwartz had left SSD under a cloud, and told the court he decided to crack...
[March 2, 2007, 15:59]
Worm surge exploits Microsoft vulnerability
News The worm launches a dictionary attack to attempt to crack user passwords, and uses server-side polymorphism and modification to the Access Control Lists (ACL) "to make network disinfection particularly difficult", F-Secure said in a blog post.
[January 7, 2009, 15:15]
Sasser worm author arrested in Germany
News Security experts said this could be the single biggest arrest yet in the campaign against the computing underground responsible for hatching worms and viruses, which has proved difficult for law enforcement to crack.
[May 9, 2004, 11:05]
Pirated XP on sale already in Malaysia
News Piracy is a tough nut to crack in Malaysia. We will crack down on these operations," he said, declining to provide further details. Pirated software and bootleg movies usually cost around $3. All this despite the Malaysian government's continuing...
[September 24, 2001, 17:18]
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Downloads In the final installment of the blockbuster movie trilogy, players must destroy the One Ring by casting it into the Crack of Doom, freeing Middle-earth from the clutches of the Dark Lord Sauron. Explore the Paths of the Dead, defend Minas Tirith...
[March 29, 2004, 8:00]
Police want power to seize encryption keys
Talkback Obviously the police can't crack the data themselves or else we wouldn't have this discussion. Concerning the ability to crack data. Sure, an intercepted PGP encrypted data transmission is nearly impossible to crack (short of a lucky shot).
[August 26, 2006, 23:01]
Russian programmer out on bail
News Sklyarov was detained in July at the DefCON convention in Las Vegas after he gave a speech about his company's software, a program that can be used to crack Adobe Systems' e-books. Sklyarov is facing criminal charges of trafficking the software...
[August 7, 2001, 9:13]
Wednesday
Blog The latest Windows password crack from Switzerland isn't quite like that, but it's close. Using this approach, say the cryptographers, "Using 1.4GB of data (two CD-ROMs) we can crack 99.9 percent of all alphanumerical passwords hashes in 13.6...
[July 28, 2003, 14:21]
Trainspotting, South London style
Blog Or perhaps there's a danger of lightning-fast infections from abroad caught from the line of global tourists shuffling past on their way to inspecting Doris's crack at Tate Modern next door. The malign influence of their new digs may be to blame...
[October 12, 2007, 22:43]
Hotmail 'glitch' an inside job?
News The Swedish hacking group that have claimed responsibility for this crack may not even exist," says the source. A Webmaster for another high-profile email service, who also asked for anonymity, agrees the Hotmail crack bears the markings of insider...
[August 31, 1999, 13:19]
ElcomSoft: software could be used for 'bad purposes'
News Russian software company ElcomSoft faces five criminal counts related to offering and marketing software that can be used to crack Adobe Systems' eBooks, or electronic copies of paper books. ElcomSoft is accused of violating the criminal provisions...
[December 6, 2002, 11:56]
Dmitry employer on copyright crusade
News Some of ElcomSoft's biggest customers are law-enforcement agencies, which use the software to crack passwords in the course of their investigations. The Russian company faces charges that it offered technology that can be used to crack protections...
[April 30, 2002, 9:47]
Encryption foils Internet child porn prosecutions
News In the 14 countries that were invited to participate in Operation Cathedral -- the international police investigation into the Wonderland Club -- many prosecutions failed because police computer experts were unable to crack the encryption codes...
[August 3, 2001, 14:10]
DVD-copying case heads for court
News At stake is the scope of 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which has been wielded by the entertainment industry to crack down on several technologies that make it easier to copy and distribute digital material.
[May 15, 2003, 8:01]
Researchers hack Microsoft wireless keyboards
News You can crack the cipher by hand. As exclusion-or is used as a cipher mechanism, even if the user changes the key by reconnecting the keyboard, it is easy to crack the code, said Moser. The protocol for securing some of Microsoft's wireless...
[December 5, 2007, 11:43]
Handhelds: More social, less secure
News Such is the case with the Liberty Crack Trojan horse. Liberty Crack, as the program is known, became the first Trojan horse to affect a handheld. The fix is simple: the applications can be restored by resetting the handheld, removing the Liberty...
[August 30, 2000, 13:26]
Linux tool turns your office into a supercomputer
News The company needed its own cluster in order to crack passwords fast. Latter said that Pure Hacking's own cluster initially attempting to crack Microsoft Windows-based SAM databases, DES encryption and Unix-based MD5 passwords - all of which are...
[April 7, 2005, 10:05]
DVD Jon seeks compensation
News Johansen, who was allegedly a part of a group known as the Masters of Reverse Engineering, or MoRE, simply helped in writing the program that used the existing CSS crack to de-scramble the discs. Yes, it was MoRE who did DeCSS, but the actual crack...
[January 28, 2004, 10:20]
News Schmooze: Lamp-like iGadget rings in the new year
News And careful drivers will also be pleased to note that hackers have now worked out how to crack .Net. Virus writers take an early crack at .Net Here it is, 2002, and the Schmoozer was expecting video phones and shuttle tickets to the moon for...
[January 11, 2002, 16:37]
Eighty people caught in Net paedophile ring
News Last month, 48 search warrants were executed by Greater Manchester's Obscene Publications Unit, for what became the largest proactive investigation ever undertaken in the UK to crack down on Internet child pornography.
[April 23, 2001, 16:35]
