Posts Tagged ‘hacking’

Smartphones escape Pwn2Own unhacked

by Zach Epstein on March 25th, 2009 at 4:37pm
Filed under: Android, BlackBerry OS, Mac OS, News, Software, Symbian, Windows Mobile 14 Comments

Hackers taking part in a friendly competition aimed at highlighting OS and software vulnerabilities did some real damage to a variety of computer-based web browsers — including Safari, which took all of 10 seconds to bust on a MacBook —…

WPA encryption gets hacked; Wi-Fi no longer secure

by Kelly Hodgkins on October 10th, 2008 at 4:40pm
Filed under: Wi-Fi 14 Comments

Wi-Fi is no longer a secure form of wireless communication, so says Global Secure Systems. According to their report, a Russian firm has harnessed the GPU processing power of the latest NVIDIA graphics card to accelerate Wi-Fi password recovery times…