Via Slashdot: Researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck 'have just opened the box on a whole new hacker playground, says Dragos Ruiu, organizer of the PacSec conference. At the conference, Tews will show how he was able to partially crack WPA encryption in order to read...
Elcom announced that the newest version of their Distributed Password Recovery software can now brute force certain password / encryption schemes faster by using the massive parallelism of graphics processing units that support CUDA. With the correct combination of off the shelf components available from...
A national cyber-security strategy that will seek to protect key infrastructure as well as Canadians' identities is on the way , an RCMP executive says. Details of the strategy — a partnership between the public and private sectors — will emerge over the next few months,...
In an important milestone for open source, a draft defense authorizing act in Congress includes wording plugging open source software. Both cost and software security appears to be considerations. "It's rare to see a concept as technical as open-source software in a federal funding bill. But...
Transmeta is actively seeking a buyer, having given up the chip game entirely in favor of lucrative patent licensing deals. Considering that AMD owns a $7.5M chunk of stock and most of Transmeta's tech is already licensed out to NVIDIA and Intel, those seem like...
Oracle and Intel are now working together on enterprise Could Computing that will use encryption for improved privacy on data, the two companies said at this week's OracleWorld conference. Data encryption was mentioned as part of a larger agreement which also calls for collaboration around greater...
Via Slashdot: "InfoWorld reports on an experiment in air economization, aka 'free cooling,' conducted by Intel. For 10 months, the chipmaker had 500 production servers, working at 90 percent utilization, cooled almost exclusively by outside air at a facility in New Mexico. Only when the temperature...
Intel officially unveiled its six-core 'Dunnington' Xeon 7400 processor on Monday. The Xeon 7400 is also one of the first Intel chips to have a monolithic design. In other words, all six cores will be on one piece of silicon. This is a legacy-at-launch part, as it...
Via Slashdot: "Intel is entering the storage market with an ambitious X25-M solid-state drive capable of 250MB/s sustained reads and 70MB/s writes. The drive is so fast that it employs Native Command Queuing (originally designed to hide mechanical hard drive latency) to compensate for latency the...
Via Wired: Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let...