Thursday, August 29, 2013

MC2 Post 1683 Turbo-Charged Cracking comes to long passwords




Cracking really long passwords  just got  

a whole lot faster and easier.


For the first time, the freely available password cracker ocl-Hashcat-plus is able to tackle passcodes with as many as 55 characters. It's an improvement that comes as more and more people are relying on long passcodes and phrases to protect their website accounts and other online assets.




From:  http://arstechnica.com









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Lately Security Concerns Keep Smacking Big Pipes.



In Post  1681,  I mentioned Amazon  AWS going down. 


The Week before that Google had cloud issues  and  

a  week  ago  Nasdaq  had  a Flash shutsown.
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From:  4:19 p.m. EDT August 22, 2013
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Nasdaq reopened trading Thursday afternoon after trading in all Nasdaq-listed stocks and options was halted for more than three hours due to an unknown technical glitch.



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Is "someone" looking for cracks in the infrastucture  

 pipelones?




Sure Looks like a  "Fishing" expedition...






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Nissan Joins the Self Driving Car Brigade

 
Move over Google's Self-Driving Taxi

here comes Nissan





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