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News, via InformationWeek’s Mathew J. Schwartz, of the newst methodology, in hardware based decryption, targeting password cracking: GPUs. More information, inclusive of a short snippet of the original post, and links, appears after the jump.

  News, via the inimitable Dan Goodin, spot-on reporter-at-large (I kid-you-not, Mr. Goodin is one of the most talented technical reporters on the planet) in San Francisco, California for The Register, details what we have always known, but were to afraid to ask: How far doth my printer wander… Especially after it’s retired and the [...]

A botnet, first discovered in March via a Honeypot deployment by Arbor Networks, as reared up and taken out several hundred sites, both in the United States and the People’s Republic of China… Oops… More information regarding the botnet, dubbed ‘YoyoDdos’ appears after the jump.

Post World War II, President and Commander in Chief Harry Truman  created a single holiday for United States citizens to express our gratitude to our military members for their outstanding dedication, sacrifice and service in support of our country. August 31, 1949 marks the day when the then SECDEF  -  Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson [...]

Infosecurity.US continues our popular Genius Series with a focus on Luis von Ahn, Ph.D., MacArthur Foundation Fellowship award winner, and Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. A short bio from the MacArthur Foundation appears after the page jump, along with a video.

News, via The Independent, of the successful attack [by miscreants heretofore unknown] of the French Foreign Ministry’s web site.  Just checked, and the site is evidently back online. Further information can be gleaned from the short excerpt available with bu a single click of the ReadMore link below!