brute force attack

social engineering

I Just Logged In As You: How It Happened

In my previous post I Just Logged In As You, I disclosed that someone was logging in as me -- specifically because they discovered my password. But how? If I wanted to discover someone's password, I can think of a few ways: 1. Educated guess. If you know

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Hardware Assisted Brute Force Attacks: Still For Dummies

Evidently hardware assisted brute force password cracking has arrived: A technique for cracking computer passwords using inexpensive off-the-shelf computer graphics hardware is causing a stir in the computer security community. Elcomsoft, a software company based in Moscow, Russia, has filed a US patent for the technique. It takes advantage of

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