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Nvidia's flagship gaming GPU can crack complex passwords in under an hour

posted onMay 2, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: Tom's Hardware

The best graphics cards are great for gaming but can also help crack passwords. Hive Systems, a cybersecurity solution provider, has released the 2024 edition of its Hive Systems Password Table and some additional studies detailing how long it takes different Nvidia graphics cards to crack a password.

The Dangerous Rise of GPS Attacks

posted onMay 1, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: Wired

The disruption to GPS services started getting worse on Christmas Day. Planes and ships moving around southern Sweden and Poland lost connectivity as their radio signals were interfered with. Since then, the region around the Baltic Sea—including neighboring Germany, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—has faced persistent attacks against GPS systems.

Cisco urges immediate software upgrade after state-sponsored attack

posted onApril 26, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: CSO Online

Cisco has urged its customers to upgrade their software after disclosing that state-sponsored hackers have compromised some of its security devices.

In a blog post, the company said hackers exploited previously undetected vulnerabilities in its Adaptive Security Appliances, a product that combines multiple cybersecurity functions.

Haunted by repeated breaches, Microsoft is ‘putting security above all else,’ vows CEO Satya Nadella

posted onApril 26, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: Geek Wire

Satya Nadella has made a habit on Microsoft’s earnings calls of touting the revenue growth in the company’s security technology business.

But today the Microsoft CEO took a different approach, talking instead about the Secure Future Initiative that the company launched last fall to improve its cybersecurity safeguards.

Could ChatGPT be the next big cybersecurity worry — researchers say it can crack systems faster than ever before

posted onApril 23, 2024
by l33tdawg
Credit: Tech Radar

LLMs such as ChatGPT might just be the next cybersecurity worry, according to the latest findings by researchers. Previously believed to only be able to exploit simpler cybersecurity vulnerabilities, LLMs have shown a surprisingly high proficiency in exploiting complex ones as well.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) found that GPT-4 demonstrates a scarily high proficiency in exploiting 'one-day’ vulnerabilities in real-world systems. In a dataset of 15 such vulnerabilities, GPT-4 was capable of exploiting an alarming 87% of them.