And indeed, for hackers and crackers and unscrupulous opportunists everywhere, the high-profile demonstration of a cash machine’s vulnerabilities would indeed appear to be a boon. But for those gathered at the annual technology security conference known as Black Hat, the situation presented less a victory than a challenge: how to safeguard against clever new hacks [...]

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Black Hat Independent researchers have made good on a promise to release a comprehensive set of tools needed to eavesdrop on cell phone calls that use the world’s most widely deployed mobile technology. “The whole topic of GSM hacking now enters the script-kiddie stage, similar to Wi-Fi hacking a couple years ago, where people started [...]

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Black Hat A startling percentage of the world’s automated teller machines are vulnerable to physical and remote attacks that can steal administrative passwords and personal identification numbers to say nothing of huge amounts of cash, a security researcher said Wednesday. At the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Barnaby Jack, a security researcher with [...]

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Tool name : RecycleBin   Description : RecycleBin lists the name, size, deletion time and the recovery file name of all the files inside the Recycle bin directory. At first I tried to solve it with CSIDL_BITBUCKET/SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() to list the virtual trash bin directory. Parsing the recycle-bin-files myself seemed the easier way to do it. [...]

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Nice article found on TechRepublic. Welcome to the future: cloud-based WPA cracking is here In 2008, I speculated about the future of distributed security cracking. That future has arrived, in the form of a $17 “cloud” based service provided through the efforts of a security researcher known as Moxie Marlinspike. It is effective against pre-shared [...]

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