Security

Looking for how to hack WiFi password OR WiFi hacking software?

Well, a security researcher has revealed a new WiFi hacking technique that makes it easier for hackers to crack WiFi passwords of most modern routers.

Discovered by the lead developer of the popular password-cracking tool Hashcat, Jens 'Atom' Steube, the new WiFi hack works explicitly against WPA/WPA2 wireless network protocols with Pairwise Master Key Identifier (PMKID)-based roaming features enabled.

Developers have released a tool that allows security researchers to map out and explore the cyberspace environment established by IPv6, the next-gen internet protocol.

The ipv666 tool suite, developed by researchers lavalamp and Marc Newlin, identifies live IPv6 addresses in both the global IPv6 address space and targeted IPv6 networks.

Several key figures in the global cyber security industry will be speaking at the Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference that started Sunday at the Grand Hyatt Dubai. It will conclude on Nov. 28.

Security experts are getting inside the minds of increasingly sophisticated thieves in a bid to protect drivers from car crime.

The hi-tech tricks of the trade of a new breed of car-jackers were demonstrated at the Hack in a Box conference, held at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Dubai, as well as the efforts being made to counter them. Senior officials from a variety of security firms showed just how easy - and cheap - it can be to break into expensive modern cars and even control them remotely.

As many as 500 million people who’ve stayed at Marriott hotels may have had their data exposed during breaches that began in 2014. The company said reservations at its Starwood properties – which include the Park Lane Sheraton Grand, Westbury Mayfair and Le Meridien Piccadilly – had been affected by the incident.

Work is continuing but the firm said the breached database included passport numbers, dates of births, names, addresses and phone numbers. Payment card numbers and expiration dates were also stored for some.

The website for an adult furry game was hacked, with 411,000 unique email addresses and other personal information leaked, according to Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt. The website hosted High Tail Hall, an interactive puzzle game “where you can have erotic encounters with the surrounding characters.”

In early 2015, researchers unveiled Rowhammer, a cutting-edge hack that exploits unfixable physical weaknesses in the silicon of certain types of memory chips to transform data they stored. In the 42 months that have passed since then, an enhancement known as error-correcting code (or ECC) available in higher-end chips was believed to be an absolute defense against potentially disastrous bitflips that changed 0s to 1s and vice versa.

Research published Wednesday has now shattered that assumption.

John Toterhi, a security researcher with IoT security company Finite State, believes that many of the security problems plaguing IoT devices are solvable problems through transparency.

Millions of SMS text messages—many containing one-time passcodes, password reset links, and plaintext passwords—were exposed in an Internet-accessible database that could be read or monitored by anyone who knew where to look, TechCrunch has reported.

At Pwn2Own 2018 mobile hacking competition held in Tokyo on November 13-14, white hat hackers once again demonstrated that even the fully patched smartphones running the latest version of software from popular smartphone manufacturers can be hacked.

Three major flagship smartphones—iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9, and Xiaomi Mi6—were among the devices that successfully got hacked at the annual mobile hacking contest organized by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), earning white hat hackers a total of $325,000 in reward.