Sad information: Hackers grab more than 285M records in 2008. Just curious, how about Sarbanes-Oxley Act, does it really work? 🙂

Nice lyrics stirs up hacker’s morning drowsy feelings 🙂
 

Strong passwords are mutated passwords. Everyone who publishes recommendations on creating secure password says that you have to use both upper- and lower-case letters and inject some tricky special characters. Such recommendations may result in p@$$words and pAsswOrds, and p_a_s_s_w_o_r_d_s. The fact is that modern password recovery software uses dictionary attack to get one’s password back. Dictionary attack means searching lists of dictionary words and common phrases that can be found on the Internet or delivered with the software. It is easy to grab that dictionary words and word phrases make bad passwords, but one has to understand that adding special characters to these words and phrases does’t do them any good. Such password can be easily cracked when smart mutations option is on. 

Google made a video tour inside their premises. Looks like an amazing wire-n-hardware gathering:

As you may guess, it is ATI Radeon HD 4890 X2. It is not available yet, but coming soon. We’re very impatient to try our WPA password recovery software there.

Michael Kassner placed an article about Surveillance Self-Defense in the TechRepublic, where he gives brief outline of the SSD website. Though some can endlessly brood over the grounds for the project foundation, for me one is clear that this site can be very much helpful to put all principal computer security guidelines together and close the gaps in your own security.
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Welcome to the newly opened, all-new ElcomSoft Blog! In this blog, we shall be covering various issues in the area of computer security. Windows hacks, weak passwords, security weaknesses of well-known products, electronic identity theft, new attacks and algorithms that help or prevent us from cracking certain passwords, and similar issues will be covered.

ATI and NVIDIA arranged a new graphic cards fight, claims TweakTown: