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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Reasonable, appropriate, adequate…security (Part I)
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009Most laws define security obligations as reasonable, appropriate, suitable, necessary, adequate etc. without giving more precise directives to follow. Is it good or bad? And what should be known about these standards?
Let’s see what major security standards say about recommended security measures.
Thunder Tables – now registered trademark
Monday, June 29th, 2009Good news over here! We’ve got a nice and shiny registration certificate from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Now our Thunder Tables have their (R) sign. 
As you know Thunder Tables allow guaranteed decryption of Adobe PDF and Microsoft Word documents, check the link to get a detailed description: http://blog.crackpassword.com/2009/05/thunder-tables/
Squeezing your First Amendment rights
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009In the city of Bozeman (the US) it is…pardon, was “acceptable” to require user credentials to your personal mailboxes and other social networking accounts, when applying for a job. What for? For “a thorough background check”. (more…)
AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition is the new black
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The world is waiting for the specifications of currently most powerful processor – AMD Phenom II 42 TWKR Black Edition aka Formula 1. They say it has an unlocked clock multiplier for ease of overclocking, though consumes 200W and thus requires good cooling. One of the pictures on the website of Maingear PC founder and CEO (Wallace Santos) has a not-for-sale-note which caused a gossip that the new processor is not meant for retail, but probably for direct selling from AMD to “extreme enthusiasts”.
So, let’s wait together for a detailed description.
The U.S. statutes on password related crimes – overview by states
Thursday, June 18th, 2009In this entry I’d like to suggest a kind of a list of various legal decisions on password [ab]use I could find on the web. Your add-ins are welcome, just put in any other acts you know…
Georgia Computer Systems Protection Act
(e) Computer Password Disclosure. Any person who discloses a number, code, password, or other means of access to a computer or computer network knowing that such disclosure is without authority and which results in damages (including the fair market value of any services used and victim expenditure) to the owner of the computer or computer network in excess of $500.00 shall be guilty of the crime of computer password disclosure.
ATI’s Hall of Fame
Thursday, June 18th, 2009ATI Stream Developer Showcase enrolled our Elcomsoft Wireless Security Auditor in its security section, among other “notable applications” that use ATI Stream technology:
http://developer.amd.com/SAMPLES/STREAMSHOWCASE/Pages/default.aspx#security
Yet another pleasant morning news
Keyboards unreliable for keeping… transmitting secrets
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Time for shoulder surfing is gone, today we have more sophisticated ways to track what you are typing on your keyboard. A series of appearing keyboard attacks yet again prove its incapability of keeping secretes. Let’s see what we have…
More than 100.000 websites are in ‘safe hands’ now
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009The Register reports VAServ.com has been attacked and now more than 100.000 websites have gone forever because of company’s poor password policy. The attackers are unknown and Rus Foster, (former?) VAServ.com director claims that anonymous messages indicated nonexistent passwords. I wouldn’t like to sound sarcastic but their description at AboutUs.org reads quite funny now, what do you think?
The smallest password cracking device
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009We wrote about the new iPhone last week, but these we only rumors. And now it is officially announced (on WWDC); the sales will start on June 17th (in the U.S.). Additional information is available at Apple web site: general and about iPhone 3.0 software update. But unfortunately, still no tech specs of its GPU; according to the above article, Maybe there is some truth to the rumors that Apple is using OpenCL. If that’s true, there will be (technical) ability to crack passwords on it, and the speed should not be disappointing.
News from the other side: Intel could Atomise handsets in two years. An era of portable password crackers is coming 