An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay | TIME.com
Wednesday, 03 April 2013
Kids using Dynabooks, in a drawing from Alan Kay's 1972 paper "A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages"[…]
Computer forensic examiners are from Mars, attorneys are from Venus
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
The outcome of high stakes investigations and litigation can often depend on the evidence uncovered through computer forensic investigation. That fact highlights the critical nature of the forensic ex...
Demand Surges for Supercomputers (Don Clark/Wall Street Journal)
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Don Clark / Wall Street Journal:
Demand Surges for Supercomputers — Demand is suddenly surging for the largest scientific computers, driven by technology changes seen in two powerful systems unveiled this week. — The supercomputers, installed in Illinois and Texas—each requiring about the space of a basketball court …
Buildings Go Green…in the Cloud
Friday, 22 March 2013
Researchers at Microsoft Research Connections and the Royal Danish Academy are collaborating with a startup in northern Italy, to develop eco-friendly civil-engineering tools
Windows Server® 2012 Core Network Companion Guide: Deploying IP Addressing for Branch Offices
Sunday, 24 March 2013
This guide explains how to build upon the foundation network by configuring Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) version 4 (IPv4) addressing in branch offices that are connected to your main office with a virtual private network (VPN) connection.
AdventureForge – a new RPG, looking for help
Wednesday, 05 December 2012
A few words from AdventureForge, which is a new Python RPG that caught my eye last week.[…]
New 25-GPU Monster Devours Strong Passwords In Minutes
Wednesday, 05 December 2012
chicksdaddy writes "A presentation at the Passwords^12 Conference in Oslo, Norway (slides), has moved the goalposts on password cracking yet again. Speaking on Monday, researcher Jeremi Gosney (a.k.a epixoip) demonstrated a rig that leveraged the Open Computing Language (OpenCL) framework and a technology known as Virtual Open Cluster (VCL) to run the HashCat password cracking program across a cluster of five, 4U servers equipped with 25 AMD Radeon GPUs communicating at 10 Gbps and 20 Gbps over Infiniband switched fabric. Gosney's system elevates password cracking to the next level, and effectively renders even the strongest passwords protected with weaker encryption algorithms, like Microsoft's LM and NTLM, obsolete. In a test, the researcher's system was able to generate 348 billion NTLM password hash checks per second. That renders even the most secure password vulnerable to compute-intensive brute force and wordlist (or dictionary) attacks. A 14 character Windows XP password hashed using LM for example, would fall in just six minutes, said Per Thorsheim, organizer of the Passwords^12 Conference. For some context: In June, Poul-Henning Kamp, creator of the md5crypt() function used by FreeBSD and other, Linux-based operating systems, was forced to acknowledge that the hashing function is no longer suitable for production use — a victim of GPU-powered systems that could perform 'close to 1 million checks per second on COTS (commercial off the shelf) GPU hardware,' he wrote. Gosney's cluster cranks out more than 77 million brute force attempts per second against MD5crypt." 
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