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Cracking The Bluetooth PIN
White Papers The paper then describes the cracking speed one can achieve through three optimizations methods. This paper describes the implementation of an attack on the Bluetooth security mechanism. Specifically, it describes a passive attack, in which an...
[November 10, 2005, 23:00]
Cracking Open The Apple MacBook Air
Articles CNET Networks's TechRepublic runs a regular series called Cracking Open in which it takes a look inside a variety of gadgets. ZDNet.co.uk is publishing this excerpt. The Apple MacBook Air is thin, light and a testament to what good engineering and...
[March 18, 2008, 15:20]
Cracking The IPhone: The Hackers Rubik’s Cube
Blog Cracking the iPhone: The Hackers Rubik’s Cube By: Eric Everson, Founder MyMobiSafe.com Anyone following iPhone news knows that this new device has become the Rubik’s Cube of the hacking community. Everyone worth their weight in code is trying to...
[July 12, 2007, 18:19]
Arguments Presented In DVD Cracking Case
News California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called DVD-cracking software DeCSS a tool for "breaking, entering and stealing" during a hearing before the California Supreme Court on Thursday. The program DeCSS is a burglary tool," Lockyer told the...
[May 30, 2003, 8:05]
Court Blocks DVD-cracking Suit
News The California Supreme Court handed Hollywood's antipiracy efforts a setback on Monday, ruling that a Texas resident who posted controversial DVD-cracking code online can't be sued in the California. While a student at Indiana's Purdue University...
[November 26, 2002, 8:19]
Group Cracking Xbox 'for The Public Good'
News The group launched, and then quickly dropped its Xbox cracking plan recently, when it began attracting wide public interest. The Neo Project is a group of computing enthusiasts devoted to cracking security challenges using distributed computing...
[January 15, 2003, 11:39]
Court Upholds Ban On DVD-cracking Code
News A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an order that prohibits publishing or linking to DVD-cracking code -- a decision with sweeping significance for free speech rights and copyright protection on the Internet.
[November 29, 2001, 9:06]
Cable Companies Cracking Down On Wi-Fi
News Broadband providers in the US are cracking down on popular Wi-Fi networks, threatening to cut service to customers who set up the inexpensive wireless systems and allow others to freely tap into their Internet access.
[July 9, 2002, 13:11]
56-bit Crypto Code Cracking Record Smashed
News RSA Laboratories sponsored the code cracking challenge that was launched on Monday with a prize of $10,000 (£6,134) for the winner. The record-breaking computer was specially built for the challenge by The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) at a...
[July 17, 1998, 11:11]
Gates: Cracking The Mobile Market
Talkback Hi I find the questioning of Bill Gates to be very unprobing, unquestioning and indeed not in the spirit of critical journalism. To make the point in the first paragraph why was no mention raised of the software bloat that Microsoft products all...
[May 23, 2005, 12:27]
University Of Nottingham: Cracking The Codes Of Life
White Papers The Pharmacy School at the University of Nottingham has developed a revolutionary method to identify the structure of proteins in the human body thanks in part to computing power supplied via Sun grid technology.
[May 8, 2005, 0:00]
Web War Rages Over DVD-cracking Site
News In a move that free-speech activists hope will be trendsetting, Internet service provider Verio is standing up to the movie industry by refusing to remove a Web site the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) says is illegal.
[January 25, 2001, 9:03]
Guarding Against SQL Server Attacks: Hacking, Cracking, And Protection Techniques
White Papers This paper provides an overview of the two main methods by which SQL servers are hacked and abused. The first method consists of weak or nonexistent DBA passwords. One of the most sought-after DBA accounts is the sa account used by MS SQL Server.
[February 15, 2005, 23:00]
Are Women Cracking IT's Glass Ceiling?
News The IT industry has long been viewed a male-dominated domain, providing few career opportunities for female techies. As TechRepublic columnist Bob Weinstein pointed out in a recent column, Career outlook rosier, but obstacles persist for women in...
[January 21, 2002, 16:31]
Cracking The Codes
News Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist of Cryptography Research, came to prominence in the industry by breaking things. In 1998, the company cracked security on smart cards by monitoring how much power their internal microprocessors used.
[April 29, 2004, 12:15]
Photos: Cracking Open The IPhone
News Although I really love cracking open interesting gadgets, this was not one of my favorite projects. As I have a perfect record of cracking open gadgets and putting them back together in working order, I wasn't about to let the iPhone get the better...
[July 6, 2007, 12:46]
Gates: Cracking The Mobile Market
News Bill Gates doesn't think his company has been slow to crack the mobile phone market. He just thinks the little devices have yet to catch up to the power of his company's software. Still, with mobile phones quickly gaining the power PCs had not that...
[May 12, 2005, 15:25]
£150,000 Crypto Cracking Challenge Launched
News Internet security firm RSA Security is challenging individuals to test the strength of its algorithms in its latest crypto Factoring Challenge, with a cash prize of nearly £150,00 at stake. Cryptography experts must determine the two prime numbers...
[July 24, 2001, 13:56]
Cracking A Walnut With A Sledge Hammer
Talkback Apart from the infringement of human rights and invasion of privacy, this wonderful sounding idea will, if it is IT successful, result in a massive expenditure of taxpayers funds on the infrastructure and the wages of hundreds if not thousands of...
[January 30, 2007, 7:21]
Undercover Darknets Cracking Crime
News In nature, vigilance and intelligence are essential for the survival of any species. The ability to communicate information quickly and uniformly, particularly threats, is often the difference between evolution and extinction.
[November 23, 2005, 16:00]
