A security researcher using his own custom built software has tapped Amazon’s cloud computing service to crack Wi-Fi passwords quickly and cheaply. Thomas Roth of Cologne, Germany told Reuters he software running on Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud service to break into a WPA-PSK protected network in about 20 minutes and claimed that with refinements to [...]

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1 Mississippi, 2 Mississippi, 3 Mississippi, 4 Mississippi, 5 Mississippi. And now you’re Wi-Fi network’s been hacked. Card protection research and insurance company CPP found that nearly half of the UK’s home Wi-Fi networks can be hacked in less than five seconds. Of the 40,000 networks identified in the six cities, just under 20,000 had [...]

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In the virtual world, there’s nothing more precious than your precious Facebook password, (well maybe you’re online banking details, but that’s about it.) Allowing people to see your password (whether accidentally or not) will almost certainly lead to your friends, excuse the term, ‘fraping’ you and on a serious note those dodgy fraudsters and hackers [...]

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Google has given its Gmail service a new security feature to help companies that are migrating their e-mail to Gmail. The new feature is a second line of defense in the form of a PIN. The PIN has been introduced as the entire security of one of their e-mail accounts relies solely on the users [...]

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If you’re one of the many who protects your identity with the password “doctor”, “ferrari”, “peanuts”, “startrek” or the particularly ambiguous “password123″, no longer will you be able to sign up to a new Twitter account with your usual catchphrase. In the face of new hacks and bots roaming the net to steal passwords to [...]

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