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Gadgets and latest digital toys (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sold as a "password recovery" solution for $600 (5 clients) to $5000 (2500 clients), Elcom Distributed Password Recovery is a software that allows its users to crack passwords from many applications. Among the "crackable" formats: Microsoft Office, PGD (PGP Disk with conventional encryption), OpenDocument, PDF (user and owner passwords) Quicken, WPA, WPA2 and many more (list below in the full post)....
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Consul-At-Arms (Free subscription) | yesterday
From my archive of press clippings: Wired E-Passport Hacker Designs RFID Security Tool By Kim Zetter April 14, 2008 2:13:55 PM
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Computer World (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
As if taxpayers needed another reason to scorn the IRS. I read yesterday that the inspector general review of several IRS computer systems found "several weaknesses in control over access to applications containing sensitive information." I remember reading last month that the inspector general had found computer weaknesses at the IRS. This time around the IG didn't criticize the IRS security policies...
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Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
And despite it all, deals are still happening -- or at least they're supposed to happen (at least on the opposite side of the world). Kaspersky Lab , a growing computer security firm, thinks it can raise up to $100 million via a private placement; it says it wants to use the cash to pursue large enterprise deals. The funding, to be managed by Credit Suisse, values the company at $500 million. Quintura...
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The Register (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Mergers spawn malicious emails Scammers are exploiting meltdown in the banking sector in an attempt to trick users into handing over sensitive financial information.…
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WebPro News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The world bank has been hacked repeatedly over the last year according to a report on Dark Reading, which once again brings out the question, where was the information security team on this one? read more
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Triphow (Free subscription) | yesterday
You know the financial crisis is real bad when hackers start feeling the heat. Seems they’re venturing out of their comfort zones (mama’s basement/Pentagon computers) and turning their evil hexaediting eyes on to hotel records. The NY Post sez that a hacker calling himself John Doe is blackmailing the Thompson hotel chain, after gaining access to sensitive and personal [...]
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New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
A computer hacker is threatening to release "personal and sensitive" e-mails swiped from the swank Thompson hotel chain after taunting the company about its lax security practices. In a Sept. 30 communiqué, the hacker "attempted to embarrass key...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
A group of scientists at a Dutch university has discovered a way to crack and clone a form of electronic identification cards
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Information Week (Free subscription) | yesterday
According to a media report, the World Bank has experienced at least six major intrusions, two from the same IP address in China, since the summer of 2007.
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IT Professionals (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
I have to admit, I was wondering when WPA was going to be seen as useless. This seems to confirm it for me, except that most people do not even know how to hack into a WEP network. So in reference to this article, yes, wifi is inherently insecure. Oh and a news flash - [...]
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The Register (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Customer data beamed overseas Hundreds of card swipers used by retail stores across Europe are believed to have been tampered by organized crime syndicates in China and Pakistan, according to US National Counterintelligence Executive Joel Brenner.…
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Fans of Twitter, Pandora, Skype, Zillow, and seven other Web companies had better hope these start-ups find creative business plans to weather the financial downturn. These 11 Web 2.0 favorites have landed on Webware.com editor Rafe Needleman's list of companies that are potentially in peril. On Friday's edition of the Daily Debrief with CNET's Kara Tsuboi, Rafe explains why these companies are in...
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The Register (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Domain vuln + frame injection = dead ringer spoof pages Google's Gmail service suffers from security flaws that make it trivial for attackers to create authentic-looking spoof pages that steal users' login credentials, a security expert has demonstrated. Google Calendar and other sensitive Google services are susceptible to similar tampering.…
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Check out nearby junk with Localreuse, a simple iPhone application that serves as a front end for junk swap site Gigoit.
