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Cracking the Bluetooth PIN

« 7 November 2006 | 16:14 | Security, Stories | No Comments | 2,183 Views »

Thierry Zoller and Kevin Finistere gave a presentation in the Hack.lu 2006 conference on Bluetooth Cracking. They also showed a demo of BTCrack, a Windows tool that can crack Bluetooth PIN and Linkkey in almost real-time. All you need is



The real story behind BT buying Counterpane

« 27 October 2006 | 11:55 | Humor, Security, Stories | No Comments | 1,413 Views »

Bruce Schneiers announced in his blog that BT (aka British Telecom) has acquired Counterpane Internet Security, Inc. Ok, so far so good. But in a blog comment Carlo Graziani told the “real” storybehind this deal. Verry funny.
Bruce himself voted this comment for “Best blog comment ever.”



Online Passwort Checker from Microsoft

« 17 October 2006 | 8:21 | Security | 1 Comment | 1,239 Views »

Microsoft just published an online passwort checking tool on its website. The password checker can help you to gauge the strength of your password. I think they test the strength based on this rules:



Default passwords in ATM

« 6 October 2006 | 15:32 | Security, Stories | No Comments | 1,532 Views »

I saw some interesting articles about the old problem with default passwords on IT systems combined with the new problem that the manufactur published it on the internet. In this case we are speaking about ATM’s. Got cash?



Laptop with Data lost. Again!

« 2 October 2006 | 10:12 | Security, Stories | 1 Comment | 1,073 Views »

Reuters reported, that a General Electric laptop containing the names and Social Security numbers of 50,000 current and former employees was stolen in early September. The laptop, issued to a GE official who was authorized to have the data, was stolen from a locked hotel room, the company said.



Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked

« 19 July 2006 | 11:20 | Security, Stories | No Comments | 2,472 Views »

Charlie Paglee recently published on his blog, that the a chinese company successfully reverse engineered the Skype protocol!



Funny picture from F-Secure about “current” Rootkit ideas

« 14 March 2006 | 18:45 | Humor, Security | No Comments | 2,219 Views »

Funny picture from F-Secure about “current” Rootkit ideas.



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