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ARC Raiders seemingly cracked letting pirates play online even without buying game

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:09:59 +0000

Despite being an always-online multiplayer game, ARC Raiders may have just been cracked. The pirates are saying that they can even matchmake with players using purchased copies. Read more...

Microsoft Weekly: Free USB drives, Bing AI in Edge, and pirated Windows

Usama Jawad — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:36:02 +0000

Our latest edition of Microsoft Weekly is jampacked with news about Microsoft handing out free USBs to Insiders, the integration of AI in even more Redmond products, and pirated Windows (!). Read more...

CODEX claims to have cracked Microsoft's UWP protections and DRM

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:48:02 +0000

With the release of Zoo Tycoon Ultimate Animal Collection, the video game piracy group claims to have trumped the five layers of DRM protection included with content published via the UWP platform. Read more...

macOS Patcher ransomware forgets your key, encrypts your files forever

Justin Luna — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 07:20:01 +0000

A new piece of ransomware designed for macOS computers has recently been discovered. It is acquired through torrent sites, and pretends to be a license patcher for popular software. Read more...

NVIDIA Shield tablet cracking under the strain

Byron Hinson — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 18:01:18 +0000

The recently released NVIDIA Shield tablet is showing signs of cracking after limited use. Users are complaining that the device. which retails at $299, have noticed hairline cracks on the casing. Read more...

Russian government wants to crack Tor, offers $114,000 reward

Andy Weir — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:18:27 +0000

The Russian government wants to find a way to crack the Tor network, and will pay four million roubles to any Russian citizen or company that can reliably decrypt data sent via the anonymous network. Read more...

Windows 8 RTM leaked ISOs have been cracked

News Staff — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 16:36:28 +0000

The Russian leaker AngelWZR has confirmed that all of the ediions of Windows 8 RTM that have leaked over the weekend can now be activated with a workaround. This will not please Microsoft. Read more...

Microsoft shakes off "BitLocker cracked" claims

Tom Warren — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 07:23:04 +0000

Microsoft senior director Paul Cooke has rubbished claims that the software giants hard drive encryption tool, BitLocker, has been "cracked". Several reports over the last few weeks have highlighted weaknesses regarding BitLocker Drive Encryption (BDE)... Read more...

America to crack down on blogger payola

Matthew Hopson — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:20:30 +0000

US regulators are to crack down on bloggers who fail to disclose money or gifts received from companies when reviewing their products. In the new policy from the Federal Trade Commission, offending bloggers could eventually... Read more...

Even with Vista SP1, Hackers Still Crack WGA

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:43:03 +0000

[quote]The fact that Microsoft has relaxed its antipiracy mechanism built into Windows Vista concomitantly with the release of Service Pack 1 failed to stop hackers from providing a crack for the latest version of Windows... Read more...

Vista Update Fingers Activation Cracks

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:17:11 +0000

Microsoft has announced an update available to consumers next week which will detect two cracks commonly used to activate pirated copies of the operating system. One of the cracks refered to as Grace Timer, extended... Read more...

DRam crack breaks encryption software

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:48:57 +0000

Disk encryption software used on many systems can be circumvented using what researchers referred to as "simple non-destructive techniques". A report from researchers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Princeton University and Wind River Systems concluded... Read more...

Google can crack passwords

Steven Parker — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:19:17 +0000

A clever bloke into security research at the University of Cambridge computer lab wrote in his bog last Friday that he's discovered Google works as a password MD5 hash cracker. Someone had hacked into his... Read more...

DRM lobby scrambles to block HD DVD crack

Tom Warren — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:09:29 +0000

A digital rights management (DRM) licensing authority is strong-arming search firms, bloggers and open source advocates in a desperate attempt to stop the spread of a software key that disables copyright protection on Blu-ray and... Read more...

Another Vista Activation Crack Appears

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 12:34:18 +0000

Buzz about a Windows Vista zero-day vulnerability is troubling enough (although probably overblown). Now, there appears to be a second product activation hack, this one designed to fool the activation timer into not counting down.... Read more...

Hackers crack secret Google malware search codes

Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:48:42 +0000

Hidden malware search capabilities within Google which were reserved for antivirus and security research firms just weeks ago have been cracked by hackers, according to security industry sources. specific malware program, according to researchers from... Read more...

IE Design Flaw Lets Hacker Crack Google Desktop

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:27:29 +0000

An unpatched design flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser could give malicious hackers an easy way to use the undefined undefined Google Desktop application to covertly hijack user information. Matan Gillon,... Read more...

USB Devices Can Crack Windows

Fri, 22 Jul 2005 22:14:49 +0000

Vulnerabilities in USB drivers for Windows could allow an attacker to take control of locked workstations using a specially programmed Universal Serial Bus device, according to an executive from SPI Dynamics, which discovered the security... Read more...

Regulators in Escrow crack down

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 11:07:56 +0000

California regulators have declared a hunting season on unlicensed Internet escrow companies. According to Associated Press, five were shut down yesterday by the Escrow Fraud Task Force with a little help the Federal Trade Commission,... Read more...

Video Voyeurs Face Crack Down

Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:45:25 +0000

Pornographers beware - new legislation coming into law in the US will soon make the practise of covertly taping people "for lascivious purposes" illegal. Described as "video voyeurism", the practise has become the "new frontier... Read more...

3D holograms to crack forgeries

Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:18:57 +0000

Forged documents could be signed off for good with a new technique that produces a 3D hologram of handwriting. Through virtual reality and image processing, tiny pressure bumps in writing can be analysed to spot... Read more...

German police crack down on hacking group

Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:57:50 +0000

German police have carried out their biggest ever crackdown on internet piracy in probe against 126 members of an online hackers' forum. The Germans are thought to be part of a wider network of 476... Read more...

Hackers Crack Latest Windows Flaw

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:05:27 +0000

Computer code that exploits a critical new software vulnerability in the Windows XP and Windows 2000 operating systems is circulating on the Internet, according to security experts. Two examples of "exploit" code for a buffer... Read more...

Nokia pledges to pursue N-Gage crack creators

Marcel Klum — Thu, 13 Nov 2003 20:38:27 +0000

Nokia today vowed to "aggressively pursue" the people behind the successful attempt to crack its N-Gage handheld console-cum-phone's copy protection mechanism. A Nokia spokesman told The Register the company had already begun working... Read more...

X Box security crack project downed for "legal reasons"

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Jan 2003 14:31:48 +0000

MICROSOFT HAS FLEXED its legal muscle and sent the project to crack the encryption keys that protect X Box games from copying scuttling for cover. A message on the Neo Project website states. ... Read more...

Aust employers crack down on staff surfing

Tue, 25 Jun 2002 07:41:12 +0000

Policies, monitoring and checking-up on employee's Internet surfing, are increasingly on the agenda for Australian businesses, according to one industry analyst. Research from industry analyst Gartner (US) found that as much as 40 percent... Read more...

Sun gets a crack at Web services elite

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 06:49:53 +0000

A proposal being considered by a key Web services organization could pave the way for Sun Microsystems to join on equal footing with rivals Microsoft and IBM. But continued political battling could sidetrack the effort.... Read more...

Researchers Claim to Crack Wi-Fi Security

Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:39:33 +0000

Thank you Darren Proponents deny wireless networking spec is vulnerable to hijack, authentication attacks. A University of Maryland professor and his graduate student have apparently uncovered serious weaknesses in the... Read more...