RainbowCrack – Largest NTLM rainbow tables ever

Sunday, November 28th, 2010

RainbowCrack is a general propose implementation of Philippe Oechslin's faster time-memory trade-off technique. Function of this software is to crack hash. The straightforward way to crack hash is brute force. In brute force approach, all candidate plaintexts and corresponding hashes are computed one by one. The computed hashes are compared with ...

Windows Kernel Bug May Bypass User Account Control

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

Another 0-day bug on the Windows platform is affecting win32k.sys (a critical component of the Windows kernel), and this time, the approach seems to pose a major challenge to the security world. This vulnerability is triggered by a buffer overflow in the kernel file, which allows code to bypass UAC ...

HTTPS Everywhere: Fend Off Firesheep

Saturday, November 27th, 2010

The Web is an insecure place and getting more insecure all the time. The latest threat, the Firesheep add-in for Firefox, is particularly dangerous because it is exceedingly simple to use. Someone with absolutely no hacking experience can grab your private login information to sites such as Facebook and Amazon, ...

Firesheep Highlights Web Privacy Problem

Monday, October 25th, 2010

A new add-on program for the popular Firefox Web browser is stirring up longstanding concerns over how many websites electronically identify their users.It’s a problem associated with the use of wireless networks. The add-on program, Firesheep, is designed to make it easy to intercept browser “cookies” used by popular Web ...

Update your browsers!

Tuesday, October 19th, 2010

Today, Firefox moved up to 3.6.11 and Google Chrome (stable release) moved up to 7.0.517.41. Lots of security fixes in these new versions.