Neowin News Feed for: Broken

MD5 encryption broken, Microsoft warns

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:49:04 +0000

Microsoft Security Advisory warned today that a possible attack against the MD5 hash digital certificate could allow an attacker to generate their own certificate with information from the original. Microsoft warned that only the... Read more...

Father sentenced for killing toddler over broken Xbox

Steven Parker — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:25:22 +0000

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A man who killed his 17-month-old daughter in a rage over a broken Xbox has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison. Tyrone Spellman, 27, of Philadelphia, killed Alayiah Turman with at least... Read more...

3 of 5 broken undersea cables to be repaired by Sunday

Simon Andrews — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:23:01 +0000

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Three of the five undersea cables that were severely damaged and caused disruptions across the middle east will be repaired by Sunday, one of them being repaired by Saturday, according to authorities currently dealing with... Read more...

Vista Ultimate's promised add-ons just broken promises?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:53:38 +0100

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Microsoft Corp. has failed to deliver on its promise of downloadable extras for the highest-priced version of Windows Vista, critics claim. Dubbed "Extras" and exclusive to Vista Ultimate, the downloads were touted before, at and... Read more...

Broken botnet cuts global spam by a third

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:07:21 +0000

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New email monitoring data has revealed a "sudden" 30 per cent reduction in global spam volumes over the past week. Security firm SoftScan believes that the drop is most likely to be the result of... Read more...

2K Games announces Dungeon Siege II: Broken World available

Todd Tanner — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 00:20:14 +0100

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2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., today announced Dungeon Siege II: Broken World, the official expansion pack to the award winning action role playing game, is now available for PC at retail... Read more...

World Network Speed Record Broken for Third Consecutive Year

Shane Pitman — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:53:13 +0000

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An international group of scientists and engineers have broken the world network speed record for the third consecutive year. The team consists of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers from the California Institute of Technology,... Read more...

Fourth Broken Sword game announced for PC

Todd Tanner — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 00:37:21 +0100

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THQ Inc. and Revolution Software today announced that the fourth installment of the award-winning Broken Sword games is currently scheduled for release on Windows PC in summer 2006. A unique and successful brand that has... Read more...

A fix for a Broken Patent System?

malebolgia — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:43:48 +0100

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The U.S. patent system will undergo its most substantial overhaul in decades if a bill introduced on Wednesday becomes law. Rep. Lamar Smith, who heads the House of Representatives committee responsible for... Read more...

SHA-0, MD4, MD5, HAVAL-128, and RIPEMD broken

Mr magoo — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:56:43 +0100

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At this years CRYPTO'04, a security conference, it was announced that on variety of popularly used security protocols, security researchers had found collisions. Cryptography Research have published a Q & A on the implications of... Read more...

200 days to fix a broken Windows

malebolgia — Fri, 13 Feb 2004 15:27:15 +0000

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Security researchers are both criticizing and empathizing with Microsoft for the 200 days the company needed to create its latest critical software patch. The six-plus months is the longest the software giant... Read more...

Broken Sword 3 Demo

Marcel Klum — Sat, 06 Dec 2003 14:12:51 +0000

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THQ has (finally) released the playable demo of Broken Sword 3: The Sleeping Dragon, allowing you to try out this recent adventure game developed by Revolution Software. While downloading the demo, be sure to read... Read more...

Microsoft's response to broken Cumulative Patch MS03-032

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 09 Sep 2003 12:39:37 +0100

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On the 20th August Microsoft issued the Cumulative Patch MS03-032 for Internet Explorer. It dealt with several issues: A vulnerability that involves the Internet Explorer cross-domain security modelA vulnerability that occurs because Internet Explorer does... Read more...

Beep! Beep! You have Broken the Law.

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:58:45 +0000

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Authorities in China are turning to technology to nab vandals--they use a computer program that spams the wrongdoers' mobile phones until they turn themselves in. Officials in Hangzhou, the capital of China's... Read more...

Plus! Digital Media Edition Broken in :)

Tom Warren — Mon, 03 Feb 2003 01:59:30 +0000

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A group called the "Holics Project" have again, according to various reliable resources, successfully released a working "crack" that disables Plus! Digital Media Edition's WPA (Windows Product Activation) module. The group responsible for cracking Office... Read more...

Office 11 Broken in :)

Mr magoo — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 00:21:56 +0000

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So it would appear - i must firstly thank Agent Jones for sending this in - extremely kind! A group called the "Holics Project" have, according to various reliable resources, successfully released a working "crack"... Read more...

RC5-64 broken in 1,757 days

me101 — Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:35:07 +0100

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Slashdot has just announced that RC5-64, RSA's 64 bit encryption challenge has been broken. On 14-Jul-2002, a relatively characterless PIII-450 in Tokyo returned the winning key to the distributed.net keyservers. The key 0x63DE7DC154F4D03... Read more...

IMHO: Microsoft Activation is Broken

configure — Mon, 17 Jun 2002 13:26:33 +0100

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"I'm an optimistic sort of person. You need to know this before you read on. I tend to be very forgiving of weird tech issues, and others in my circle have noticed that most hardware... Read more...

Windows can be broken down. Oh no it can't. Oh yes it can.

cheekymonkey — Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:59:56 +0100

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"Microsoft has contended all along that Section 1 (of the states' proposed remedy) cannot be done," Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler said Wednesday. "It cannot be done. You cannot create modular versions of Windows. You cannot... Read more...