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Amazon Kindle

7 May 2009

It is awesome, Amazon Released ebook reader (called Amazon Kindle) in a press conference.
It will hold up to 200 books for a price of $359. It comes ready for wireless downloads and uses a cellular connection rather than WiFi and can download Amazon’s version of WiFi feeds (for a charge).

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PasswordsPro

In: Software

7 May 2009

In the net, there is a lot of programs to brute hashes like MD5, MySQL, SHA1, and other. One of the best software for crack the hashes is PasswordsPro (PasswordPro v2.5.1.1 is the new one when I checked). This program is designated for the recovery of passwords for different types of hashes. Password Pro currently supports about 30 types of hashes, and new ones can be easily added by creating a custom external hashing DLL-module. The actual list of available modules can be found on the software-related forum. The peak number of hashes the application is capable of working with simultaneously is 256.

Password Pro v2.5.1.1 using following this methods for recovery:

Preliminary attack
Brute force attack (including distributed attack)
Mask attack
Simple dictionary attack
Combined dictionary attack
Hybrid dictionary attack
Rainbow attack

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AMD Overclocked to 7,1 GHz

In: Information

7 May 2009

LimitTeam_Sigh, overclocker team from China once again book their prestation in the world of overclocking. LimitTeam_Sigh has been overclocked AMD Phenom II up to 7,1GHZ – 7127.85MHz (250.01 * 28.5). On that tested, they using motherboard Asus M4A79T Deluxe, GPU ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, RAM 4 GB-Apacer DDR3 memory 833.7MHz.

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12 Million IP Hijacked by Botnets

In: Computer Security

5 May 2009

McAfee, Inc. Quarterly Threat Report Reveals 12 Million New IP Addresses Have Been Hijacked by Botnets

Spam Levels Rise Despite the Takedown of the Infamous Spam Hosting ISP McColo

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 05, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Today the McAfee, Inc. (NYSE:MFE) first quarter threat report revealed that cybercriminals have taken control of almost 12 million new IP addresses since January, a 50 percent increase since 2008. The United States is now home to the largest percentage of botnet-infected computers, hosting 18 percent of all zombie machines. Cybercriminals are building an army of infected, “zombie” computers to recover from last November’s takedown of a central spam-hosting ISP, according to the new report from Avert Labs.