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Group ditches bid to crack Xbox code
News A computing project has abandoned its effort to crack the main security code for Microsoft's Xbox video game console. The group's initial software release focused on a $10,000 challenge from computer security firm RSA Security to crack a 576-bit...
[January 7, 2003, 23:06]
NSA attempting to design crack-proof computer
News Software emulation firm VMware announced it has teamed up with researchers at the US's National Security Agency to create a nearly crack-proof computer that can place sensitive data in virtual vaults inside the PC.
[February 2, 2001, 8:38]
£35,000 prize to crack 'PitBull'
News A computer security firm announced Monday a $50,000 (about £35,000) prize to the first person who can crack its system protection package. The contest -- known as OpenHack III -- is sponsored by eWeek magazine and gives hackers two weeks to crack a...
[January 16, 2001, 9:14]
Crack this service and win £30,000
News London-based e-commerce company Global Market has issued a £30,000 challenge to anyone who can crack its new high-security email service, 1on1 mail. Global Market is so confident that the service is impregnable that CEO Leo Scheiner believes he...
[August 26, 1999, 15:49]
'Critical' open source initiative to crack public sector
News This project is critical to allowing us to crack the public sector in the UK," said Taylor. A UK government-funded initiative aims to accelerate the use of open source software within the public sector, through various activities including the...
[April 5, 2005, 17:10]
SSL certificate crack threatens e-commerce sites
Blog The basis of the crack lies in an apparent vulnerability in the MD5 signature algorithm, so the researchers are urging certification authorities (CAs) to switch to newer, more secure alternatives such as SHA-2.
[December 31, 2008, 10:30]
Researchers claim WPA crack
Blog German malware researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck are due to give a presentation next week at the PacSec conference on a crack of WPA, a wireless encryption protocol. The crack comes out of the researchers' work on hacking WEP, a protocol now...
[November 7, 2008, 16:20]
Tech industry could get crack at ID card security
News Last week, RFID security expert Adam Laurie said he had found a way to hack into the chips on the ID card, and that a series of offers to demonstrate the crack had been rebuffed by the Home Office. The Home Office has said it is considering...
[August 14, 2009, 17:08]
iPhone 3GS crypto easy to crack, expert warns
News The encryption functionality of the iPhone 3GS is so easy to crack that it is essentially "broken" when it comes to protecting sensitive personal data such as credit-card numbers, according to a forensics expert and iPhone developer.
[July 27, 2009, 9:22]
Can hackers crack million-dollar dare?
News With a 30-day deadline, the challenge to crack Secure Systems' Silicon Data Vault technology will be issued by 15 December. A successful crack will see US$10,000 (£6,959) donated by Secure Systems to a charity of the hacker's choice, otherwise if...
[December 6, 2000, 8:50]
DeCSS code-crack dispute back in court
News A panel of appellate judges will decide whether to uphold a lower court ruling preventing online hacker magazine 2600 from linking to code that theoretically could be used to crack DVD security. The film industry and a hacker publication will head...
[April 30, 2001, 9:36]
Dutch researchers crack London's Oyster card
Blog At the start of the year, some Dutch researchers managed to crack the Netherlands' travelcard, the OV-chipkaart. When security experts said the Dutch crack meant the Oyster system should be upgraded or replaced, TfL told us there were enough...
[June 18, 2008, 17:03]
How to crack passwords, and why you should
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[July 17, 2005, 17:28]
Hacker grounded for world's easiest crack
News The perpetrator of surely the world's easiest crack received a 12 month probation service and 100 hours' community service Thursday after breaking into the server of a major Singapore news channel's Web site by using the word "news" as both...
[September 30, 1999, 16:41]
BBC iPlayer launch on, despite crack
News The launch of the BBC's new media player will not be delayed by a new crack for the digital rights management features of Windows Media Player, the corporation said on Tuesday. On Tuesday the BBC issued a statement insisting that the crack "won't...
[July 17, 2007, 13:48]
A Year Ago: Australians track crack attempt to US military
News The aussies are blaming the yanks for trying to crack their Stock Exchange after tracing the attempt to a US military base. An attempt to crack the Australian Stock Exchange has been traced to a US military base according to reports.
[October 4, 2000, 7:02]
NXP sues university over 'Oyster crack'
News The research had led on from a cryptographic crack of Mifare Classic by German researchers Karsten Nohl and Henryk Plötz. Chip company NXP Semiconductors is to sue Radboud University in an attempt to halt the publication of a paper detailing the...
[July 8, 2008, 17:17]
Australians track crack attempt to US military
News An attempt to crack the Australian Stock Exchange has been traced to a US military base according to reports. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Richard Humphry, managing director of the Exchange, contacted the United States' Defence...
[October 4, 1999, 13:30]
FEA Helps Explain Crack Propagation in Structural Steel
White Papers Washington County LUT, Building Services challenge was to determine the cause of a vertical crack in a hollow structural steel column and understand what caused the crack to stop. He created the geometry of the column and crack using Femap's...
[January 15, 2008, 0:01]
WPA crack details revealed
News German researchers have published a paper that claims to give details of how to crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access encryption standard. A proof-of-concept tool to crack Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) has also been published by the researchers, Martin...
[November 10, 2008, 14:16]
