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WPA Encryption No Longer Secure Security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck have succeeded in partially cracking the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption, which until now had been considered safe. The two hackers will demonstrate their feat at the upcoming PacSec security conference in Tokyo, Japan.WPA is a protocol that has been widely adopt... 7 November 2008 06:46 GMT Inexpensive GPUs Pose Security Problems GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) have a new utility lately, and it's not video games. A brand new technique for cracking computer passwords has been developed by the software company Elcomsoft, based in Moscow, Russia, which has filed a patent for it in the US. This has been possible once Nvidia released in Febr... 26 October 2007 06:50 GMT