Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...
Wall Street Journal

China Developing Options to Threaten Taiwan With ‘Brute Force,’ Pentagon Says

China is making steady progress on developing more sophisticated weapons and expanding its armed force’s ability to operate away from the mainland, including against Taiwan, according to the ...
The Economist

Brute force is no match for today’s high-tech drug-runners

HeLLFIRE MISSILES used to strike terrorist hideouts in the mountains of Afghanistan. Now they rain down on the sparkling waters of the Caribbean. Small boats and their crews, alleged drug-traffickers, ...
insurancebusinessmag

Brute-force blitz: Ransomware's favorite SME entry point exposed

In today’s digitized world, where both our personal and our professional lives play out online, the case for cyber insurance has never been more prevalent. Figures from Statista found that cybercrime ...
C&EN

Symmetry-Constrained Monte Carlo for the Crystal Structure Prediction of Small Organic Molecules

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The prediction of crystal structures from the bare knowledge of molecular connectivity ...
Benzinga.com

Huawei Bets On Brute Force To Outpace Nvidia

Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares pulled back in premarket trading on Tuesday, surrendering some of Monday’s gains following reports that Huawei is aggressively pursuing an alternative path to challenge the ...
blockonomi

Ledger Says Tangem Cards Can Be Brute-Forced Faster, Wallet Maker Disagrees

Ledger Donjon researchers revealed Tangem cards allow unlimited PIN guesses using a tearing attack technique. The flaw bypasses security delays, enabling 2.5 password attempts per second instead of ...
Yahoo

Perspective: In the wake of the Charlie Kirk shooting, it’s time for a national conversation about algorithms

Charlie Kirk was cruelly murdered doing exactly what we all should be doing: in the words of Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, he was “disagreeing better.” Kirk was out there, digitally and physically, in the ...
Nature

Watch a human embryo implant itself — with brute force

A time-lapse film offers a glimpse of a hidden milestone of human development: the moment when the newly formed embryo latches onto the uterine lining. Researchers have captured real-time footage of ...
Bleeping Computer

Spike in Fortinet VPN brute-force attacks raises zero-day concerns

A massive spike in brute-force attacks targeted Fortinet SSL VPNs earlier this month, followed by a switch to FortiManager, marked a deliberate shift in targeting that has historically preceded new ...
bitnewsbot

Brute-Force Attacks Surge Against Fortinet SSL VPN Devices Globally

In the 24 hours before the report, 56 unique IP addresses engaged in these attacks. GreyNoise classified all of them as malicious. The origins of this traffic included the United States, Canada, ...