Items tagged with 'Passwords'

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Comcast User Names and Passwords Exposed

Comcast User Names and Passwords Exposed

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - by Daniel A. Begun in News
Googling your own name might not be such a narcissistic activity after all; in fact, it just must save you from identity theft. At least that's what Kevin Andreyo, a Wilkes University professor, discovered when he used the "deep web" search engine, Pipl, to see what information about him might be publicly available on the... Read More
GPUs Used to Successfully Crack Wi-Fi Passwords

GPUs Used to Successfully Crack Wi-Fi Passwords

Thursday, January 15, 2009 - by Daniel A. Begun in News
Because of the computational power of today's GPUs, GPUs are starting to be harnessed more and more to help out CPUs with some hardcore number crunching. That is the concept behind Nvidia's CUDA, ATI's Stream, and Apple's OpenCL frameworks. There aren't many apps available yet that take advantage of these relatively new... Read More
Researchers Steal Passwords From Radio Waves

Researchers Steal Passwords From Radio Waves

Thursday, October 23, 2008 - by Daniel A. Begun in News
The next time you are taking money out at the ATM, be wary of anyone lurking nearby with an antenna sticking out of their pants. They might be stealing your PIN wirelessly. A pair of Ph.D. students at the Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC) of Switzerland's Ecole publique Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),... Read More