Tuesday, August 27th, 2013
For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters. It's an improvement that comes as more and more people are relying on long passcodes and phrases to protect their website accounts and other online assets.
Until now, ocl-Hashcat-plus, the Hashcat ...
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Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
Disguising an IP address or using a proxy server to visit Web sites you've been banished from is a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer for the Northern District of California issued the ruling Friday in a ...
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Monday, August 19th, 2013
Here is the picture that I often reference when talking about information security.
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Saturday, August 17th, 2013
Apple’s App Store can seem like Fort Knox, with Apple reviewing each and every app before making it live. This fastidious approach works, for the most part, but it isn’t a perfect process. MIT Technology Review reports that researchers from Georgia Tech recently managed to get a malware-infected app approved by Apple ...
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Thursday, August 15th, 2013
We know that security is important to you and your customers. Our goal is to make securing your data as painless as possible. To help, Google Cloud Storage now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk, at no additional charge. There is no setup or configuration required, no need ...
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