SSD tools crack passwords 100 times faster

SSD tools crack passwords 100 times faster

SSD tools crack passwords 100 times faster

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InfoSec News: SSD tools crack passwords 100 times faster: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/12/password_cracking_on_crack/
By John Leyden The Register 12th March 2010
Password-cracking tools optimised to work with SSDs have achieved speeds up to 100 times quicker than previously possible.
After optimising its rainbow tables of password hashes to make use of SSDs Swiss security firm Objectif Scurit was able to crack 14-digit WinXP passwords with special characters in just 5.3 seconds. Objectif Scurit's Philippe Oechslin told Heise Security that the result was 100 times faster than possible with their old 8GB Rainbow Tables for XP hashes.
The exercise illustrated that the speed of hard discs rather than processor speeds was the main bottleneck in password cracking based on password hash lookups.
Objectif's test rig featured an ageing Athlon 64 X2 4400+ with an SSD and optimised tables containing 80GB of password hashes. The system supports a brute force attack of 300 billion passwords per second, and is claimed to be 500 times faster than a password cracker from Russian firm Elcomsoft that takes advantages of the number crunching prowess of a graphics GPU from NVIDIA.
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GCHQ staff lost 35 laptop computers, report says

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InfoSec News: GCHQ staff lost 35 laptop computers, report says: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/mar/11/gchq-mislaid-laptop-computers-report
By Richard Norton-Taylor Guardian.co.uk 11 March 2010
Staff at GCHQ, the government's electronic eavesdropping centre, mislaid 35 laptops and it was not known whether the computers contained top [...]

Hancock Fabrics Hackers Switch Stores' PIN Pads

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InfoSec News: Hancock Fabrics Hackers Switch Stores' PIN Pads: http://blogs.forbes.com/firewall/2010/03/12/hancock-fabrics-hackers-switch-stores-pin-pads/
By Andy Greenberg The Firewall Forbes.com March 12, 2010
Targeting point-of-sale devices with malicious software is standard practice, as the wave of retail hackings over the last few years have shown. [...]

GDC: Developers Vs. Cybercriminals

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InfoSec News: GDC: Developers Vs. Cybercriminals: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=223800002
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek March 12, 2010
Cybersecurity is a serious issue for any online business, but for online gaming companies it's doubly so. [...]

Linux Advisory Watch: March 14th, 2010

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InfoSec News: Linux Advisory Watch: March 14th, 2010: +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | LinuxSecurity.com Linux Advisory Watch | | March 14th, 2010 Volume 11, Number 12 | | | [...]

Help wanted: Agencies expect to hire more info security pros in 2010

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InfoSec News: Help wanted: Agencies expect to hire more info security pros in 2010: http://gcn.com/articles/2010/03/12/info-security-hiring-survey.aspx
By William Jackson GCN.com March 12, 2010
Federal government is a good place for information security professions during the current economic downturn, with relatively stable budgets, [...]

USENIX HotSec '10 Call for Papers Now Available

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InfoSec News: USENIX HotSec '10 Call for Papers Now Available: Forwarded from: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj (at) usenix.org>
The Call for Papers for the 5th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Security is now available.
On behalf of the program committee, we invite you to submit position papers on new directions of research, non-traditional approaches, [...]

Microsoft races to plug IE hole after exploit code released

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InfoSec News: Microsoft races to plug IE hole after exploit code released: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20000392-245.html
By Elinor Mills InSecurity Complex CNet News March 12, 2010
Microsoft said on Friday it is testing a patch to fix a new hole in Internet Explorer 6 and IE 7 following the release of exploit code on the Internet. [...]

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