Hackers Break Into Power Station, In Less Than A Day
Published on April 10, 2008 to SecuritySan Francisco (CA) - It took hackers less than a day to take over several desktops at a major power company. Read more
Hackers Use Google to Break Into Palin's Email Account
Published on September 19, 2008 to Using the InternetGovernor Sarah Palin and indeed the republican party was left a little red in the face earlier this week when someone hacked her email account. Today we figure Palin is turning a violent shade of... Read more
How Many FLOPS Are In Game Consoles?
Published on May 26, 2008 to OpinionAnalyst Opinion - Floating Point Operations Per Second - FLOPS - one of the more obscure processor performance indicators, and one of the oldest ones. Read more
Comcast Gets 30 Days To Explain How It Administers Internet
Published on August 21, 2008 to Business & LawThe Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday gave Comcast Corp. Read more
How The RIAA Tracks File Sharing at Colleges
Published on May 14, 2008 to Business & LawAn anonymous RIAA representative has come out detailing the organization’s methods in seeking out file sharers on college campuses in the United States. In many ways the method is almost identical... Read more
How To Crack WEP - Part 3: Securing your WLAN
Published on June 7, 2005 to NetworkingHumphrey Cheung turns the tables in his final installment of the WEP Crack series. Part III describes an approach to wireless security that matches defensive measures against the level of expected threat. Read more
How To Crack WEP - Part 1: Setup & Network Recon
Published on May 10, 2005 to NetworkingIt's common knowledge that WEP can be "easily" cracked. But did you ever wonder how "easy" it is? In Part 1 of a three-part series, Humphrey Cheung shows you how to put together a WEP-cracking setup and find vulnerable wireless devices. Read more
How To Crack WEP - Part 2: Performing the Crack
Published on May 18, 2005 to NetworkingIn Part 2 of this series, Humphrey Cheung shows how to use the tools configured in Part 1 to capture data and perform a WEP key recovery. Read more
Can We Break a Durabook?
Published on May 30, 2007 to Notebooks and LaptopsWe get nasty with Twinhead's Durabook to see how well this ruggedized notebook takes the punishment our diabolical testers dish out. Read more
How To: Diary of a New Home Network - Part 3
Published on February 16, 2006 to NetworkingIn this final installment, Tim Higgins makes a bonehead move during cable termination and shares lessons learned from the whole escapade. Read more




