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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

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Hackers stole more than 450 thousand user Yahoo passwords, as well as e-mail address on Gmail, Hotmail and AOL

Hackers stole more than 450 thousand user Yahoo passwords, as well as e-mail address on Gmail, Hotmail and AOL

A group of hackers known as the D33D Company, published an online user names and passwords of 453,492 users Yahoo, reports The New York Times. According to Marcus Carey (Marcus Carey), a researcher at Rapid7, hackers also managed to get about 106,000 e-mail addresses Gmail, 55,000 – Hotmail and 25 […]

by × July 13, 2012 × Comments are Disabled