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WPA Wi-Fi Encryption Cracked

I guess it was only a matter of time utnil someone found a quick way to break WPA Wi-Fi Encryption.  Erik Tews and his co-researcher Martin Beck found a way to break the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) key used by WPA in a relatively short amount of time: 12 to 15 minutes.  So far [...]

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Blu-ray BD+ Copy Protection System Cracked – Publicly

Slashdot reports that the BD+ copy protection scheme used in Blu-ray media has officially been cracked by the Doom9 community. Slysoft had previously cracked the BD+ copy protection scheme and ship functionality in their existing product line supporting Blu-ray disk operations (copy, burn, etc.) Turns out one of the developers from the Slysoft group provided a [...]

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