A bold new type of malware has been identified. Its attack vector is based on hijacking the DNS settings for devices on a local area network. Any device regardless of operating system that depends on an internal or external name server can be affected. The trojan...
Techworld reports the following: The world's six largest computer drive makers have published the final specifications for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications. Read the full article at Techworld....
Technical problems with the license management servers at SonicWall Inc. created havoc last week for users of the company's firewall and e-mail security products, leaving many companies temporarily unprotected against spam, phishing and malware threats. The problems resulted in affected enterprise users of the SonicWALL UTM...
Triggerfish, also known as cell-site simulators or digital analyzers, are nothing new: the technology was used in the 1990s to hunt down renowned hacker Kevin Mitnick. By posing as a cell tower, triggerfish trick nearby cell phones into transmitting their serial numbers, phone numbers, and...
Microsoft today released a new Games for Windows Live update, which improves the interface. A separate update will arrive in two to three weeks, adding support for video, demos, and DLC downloads through a Marketplace application. Microsoft has definite plans to distribute full PC titles through...
Early coverage of the Wi-Fi WPA TKIP Key crack indicated that TKIP keys were broken, but ars technica clears up the details of the attack: They are not. "We only have a single keystream; we do not recover the keys used for encryption in generating the...
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...
Steam Cloud support, which was announced last May, will be released in tangent with Valve's co-op zombie shooter Left 4 Dead demo later this week. Steam Cloud is expected to be compatible with all other Valve Steam releases (including the back catalog) after receiving support...
The Linux demo for Part 2 of the Penny Arcade Adventures, developed by Hothead Games, is now available to download on Filefront. If you like the demo and want to support a great developer that targets Linux as a gaming platform, you can purchase the game...
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...