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Weaponizing GPS Tracking Devices - Darkreading. News Millions of websites, applications from Cisco and VMware, Google Play apps, as well as millions of Android devices are vulnerable -- and the list keeps growing.By Mathew J.

Weaponizing GPS Tracking Devices - Darkreading

Schwartz , 4/17/2014 2 comments | Read | Post a Comment Quick Hits Many users fail to follow policies on mobile, cloud security, EMA Research study says.By Tim Wilson Editor in Chief, Dark Reading, 4/10/2014 12 comments | Read | Post a Comment Fifth annual DEF CON Social Engineering Capture the Flag Contest kicks off today with new "tag team" rules to reflect realities of the threat.By Kelly Jackson Higgins Senior Editor, Dark Reading, 4/7/2014 9 comments | Read | Post a Comment Commentary The Queens County DA recently arrested two Jamaica Hospital employees for stealing patient data, a lucrative crime occurring at hospitals across the nation. 16 comments | Read | Post a Comment 14 comments | Read | Post a Comment The Internet of Things is creating 50 billion Internet-connected devices. 0 comments | Read | Post a Comment. Whitepixel breaks 28.6 billion password/sec - Zorinaq. I am glad to announce, firstly, the release of whitepixel, an open source GPU-accelerated password hash auditing software for AMD/ATI graphics cards that qualifies as the world's fastest single-hash MD5 brute forcer; and secondly, that a Linux computer built with four dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 5970 graphics cards for the purpose of running whitepixel is the first demonstration of eight AMD GPUs concurrently running this type of cryptographic workload on a single system.

Whitepixel breaks 28.6 billion password/sec - Zorinaq

This software and hardware combination achieves a rate of 28.6 billion MD5 password hashes tested per second, consumes 1230 Watt at full load, and costs 2700 USD as of December 2010. The capital and operating costs of such a system are only a small fraction of running the same workload on Amazon EC2 GPU instances, as I will detail in this post. [Update 2010-12-14: whitepixel v2 achieves a higher rate of 33.1 billion password/sec on 4xHD 5970.]

Software: whitepixel Overview of whitepixel That said, speed is not everything. How to Crack a Wi-Fi Network. 1.Back Track Today we’re going to run down, step-by-step, how to crack a Wi-Fi network with WEP security turned on. Dozens of tutorials on how to crack WEP are already all over the internet using this method. Seriously—Google it. This ain’t what you’d call “news.” But what is surprising is that someone like me, with minimal networking experience, can get this done with free software and a cheap Wi-Fi adapter. Unless you’re a computer security and networking ninja, chances are you don’t have all the tools on hand to get this job done. . * A compatible wireless adapter—This is the biggest requirement. . * A BackTrack 3 Live CD.

. * A nearby WEP-enabled Wi-Fi network. . * Patience with the command line. To crack WEP, you’ll need to launch Konsole, BackTrack’s built-in command line. First run the following to get a list of your network interfaces: The only one I’ve got there is labeled ra0. Now, run the following four commands. {*style:<i>airmon-ng stop (interface) ifconfig (interface) down </i>*} 3. Open source anti-theft solution for Mac, PCs & Phones – Prey.