Archive for December 3rd, 2007

Sony PlayStation 3 can not only be used for games: recently it was found that hackers could use it to crack passwords. According to Nick Breese, a security researcher from New Zealand, Sony PlayStation cracks passwords 100 times faster than Intel hardware can. "Eight-character 'strong' passwords can be broken in a couple of days whereas before it would take weeks," Breese said at the Kiwicon hacker conference in Wellington, New Zealand. More...