There’s been good news and bad for Microsoft this week.  The good news is that the number of apps available in the new Windows Phone marketplace has been growing steadily since October and has now passed the 5,000 mark.  This is excellent news for anyone who has a Windows Phone (like me if it ever [...]

Categories: Microsoft

HDCP is a security encryption key for copy-protecting Hi-Def video content, most notable Blu-Ray players and set-top boxes.  Now a story has appeared that a master key has been found to permanently unlock the security. Engadget reported the news shortly after it first appeared in Twitter.  HDCP is configured in such a way that should any [...]

Categories: Hacking

Apple’s latest operating system version for the iPhone and iPod Touch was launched only one day ago, but already it’s official that it’s been jailbroken. A message posted by MuscleNerd on Twitter said… Jailbreaking, the process of unlocking the iPhone, has received a great deal of attention due to the fact that doing so allows [...]

Categories: Apple

There has been some concern about smartphone apps in recent weeks after a malware app worked its way into the Android store that sent premium-rate text messages to make money for criminals.  What’s more the BBC demonstrated a proof-of-concept Java app that seemed to be a simple game of noughts and crosses, but was copying [...]

Categories: Google, Google Android, Mobiles

The software Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery was designed for distributed recovery of lost passwords providing hardware acceleration for NTLM password recovery using GeForce 8 video cards which speeds up the process by a factor of up to 25).

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

Wireless Networks are becoming more and more common these days and lots of people are ignoring the fact that they have to secure their wireless lan. Seth Fogie from informit estimates that about 40-50% of all wireless lan users use no protection at all for their network.

Categories: Security