Quote from Bruce Schneiers page : This presentation will show the first experimental implementation of an eavesdropper for quantum cryptosystem. Although quantum cryptography has been proven unconditionally secure, by exploiting physical imperfections (detector vulnerability) we have successfully built an intercept-resend attack and demonstrated eavesdropping under realistic conditions on an installed quantum key distribution line. The [...]

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In addition to the crypto algorithm of the GSM mobile telephony standard, security researchers have also cracked the encryption code for calls from cordless phones that are based on the widely used Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication (DECT) standard. This was announced by members of the deDECTed.org project group at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (26C3) [...]

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The WPA Cracker is a cloud-based service that accesses a 400-CPU cluster. For $34, it can run a password against all 135 million entries in about 20 minutes. Those willing to wait 40 minutes can pay $17 to access the system at half mode. In addition to operating in the cloud, the service is also [...]

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Hackers have developed a distributed WordPress admin account cracking scheme that poses a severe risk for the security of blogs whose owners select insecure passwords. PHP scripts located on a virtual server run bruteforce (password guessing) attacks on targeted sites. Many sites can be attacked at the same time by the system, with results written [...]

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Introduction This tutorial walks you though a very simple case to crack a WEP key. It is intended to build your basic skills and get you familiar with the concepts. It assumes you have a working wireless card with drivers already patched for injection. It is recommended that you experiment with your home wireless access [...]

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