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Cloud-Based Service Cracks WPA Passwords within Minutes A new commercial cloud-based service dubbed "WPA Cracker" aims at cracking the pre-shared keys of WPA-protected wireless networks. The pentesting tool taps into a 400-CPU cluster and can go through a dictionary of 135 million words in 20 minutes.Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a security standard for protecting data ...	9 December 2009 05:11 GMT

Spammers Brute-Force Yahoo Back Door A security researcher has exposed a vulnerable Yahoo Web service that has been abused by spammers to enumerate valid Yahoo! IDs or brute-force login credentials for years. The attacks are possible because the company failed to apply the same security checks to the API as it did to the webmail interface. Ryan Barnett...	21 September 2009 07:10 GMT

Large User Database Analysis Reveals Interesting Password Habits A self-confessed white hacker who recently obtained access to a user database containing over 870,000 accounts with passwords stored in plain text has decided to do some password strength analysis. The results revealed that a significant percentage of people are still using insecure passwords that can be easily crack...	16 September 2009 08:29 GMT

Twitter Celebrity Accounts Hacker Used Dictionary Attack The hacker who compromised 33 high profile Twitter accounts a few days ago has came forward with details of the attack. According to his own version of the story, the unauthorized access to the management tools was obtained by instrumenting a dictionary-based attack against the account of a tech support staffer. Acco...	8 January 2009 06:53 GMT

Your Name Can Somehow Determine the Amount of Spam Richard Clayton, a researcher working at the Computer Laboratory from the University of Cambridge, has published the findings of one of his latest studies, which aimed at determining whether the amount of spam someone receives depends on their names or not. Of course, the research was performed bearing in mind only t...	29 August 2008 08:21 GMT

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