Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
The hacker collective "Hack the Planet" (HTP) has claimed responsibility for an attack on MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) computer systems in late January, in which it claims to have briefly taken control of the university's domain, redirected email traffic, and obtained administrator access to all .edu domains. HTP also claims to ...
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Even passwords considered “strong” by IT departments are often now vulnerable to hacking, according to professional services firm Deloitte. In Deloitte’s Technology, Media and Telecommunications Predictions 2013, the firm predicts that 90% of user generated passwords will be vulnerable to hacking this year.
Deloitte says that the weakness inherent in current password ...
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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Nearly every week now we can read about a data breach case somewhere, where millions of user accounts and potential other sensitive data has been compromised. Most people are not even shocked by such news anymore, as it is starting to become humdrum.
One of the most common attacks used in ...
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Sunday, December 9th, 2012
Ever wondered how secure the password to your Windows workstation is? Well, as it turns out, it's pretty insecure when put up against a 25-GPU server cluster running a combination of Linux and freely available password-cracking software suites. Said server, powered by 25 AMD Radeon graphics cards, manages to brute ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Dropbox is a hugely popular cloud storage service beloved by many. Unfortunately, it’s had a history of security problems, ranging from compromised accounts to once allowing access to every Dropbox account without requiring a password for several hours. If you’re using Dropbox, there are a variety of ways you ...
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