The (Global System for Mobile Communications) technology used by the majority of the world's mobile phones will get some scrutiny at next week's Black Hat security conference, and what the security ...

Russian security vendor Elcomsoft is offering a 20% discount for law enforcement and government agencies for some of its password-cracking software. Elcomsoft, based in Moscow, makes an array of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. Over half of employees now experience quiet cracking, a ...

Security researchers have uncovered the truth behind software that’s being advertised as a way to unlock industrial terminals without a password — it’s actually a malware dropper. The malware can ...

How do laminated composites crack and lose their strength? It's an important question as commercial aerospace and other industries increasingly consider composites for critical load-bearing structures ...

Lousy grammar and nonsense may help boost password strength, a new research paper argues. Because the minimum recommended length of passwords has increased over the past few years, it's often ...

We wrote recently about developer James Bossert, whose Whack 'em All iPhone game had shifted 811 copies, of which only 196 had actually been paid for. His game was being distributed after Apple s DRM ...

If only there were more poetic justice in this world. Unfortunately, those of us who revel in such karmic resolutions have to take our kicks where we can get them. Those who live by the sword all too ...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called DVD-cracking software DeCSS a tool for "breaking, entering and stealing" during a hearing before the California Supreme Court on Thursday. "The program ...

A threat actor is infecting industrial control systems (ICS) to create a botnet through password "cracking" software for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Advertised on various social media ...