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hardware, News

XP password hacked in six minutes using GPUs and brute force

XP password hacked in six minutes using GPUs and brute force

A researcher has presented a cluster of GPUs tests up to 348,000 million combinations per second and gets the password authentication systems like Windows XP in six minutes by brute force technique. The stolen computer passwords is the order of the day and the speed of cracking them has grown […]

by × December 8, 2012 × Comments are Disabled

How-to, News, Windows 8

‘password hint’, a security hole to secure key management in Windows

‘password hint’, a security hole to secure key management in Windows

Using the function ‘password hint’ to create user accounts in Windows 7 or Windows 8 can help you remember it if forgotten but also help an attacker to obtain the same, even remotely. This is indicated by an investigation that uses vulnerability in the client operating systems Microsoft Windows 8 […]

by × August 26, 2012 × Comments are Disabled