Neowin News Feed for: Cracker

Microsoft looking to "shake hackers and crackers off Microsoft products"

Tom Warren — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:19:58 +0000

Microsoft is looking to design new anti-hacking mechanisms and "hack detection" technologies for future Microsoft products according to a recent job posting. The job posting, which has been removed (google cache), details a new opportunity in... Read more...

Microsoft grapples with mystery DRM cracker

Steven Parker — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:11:44 +0000

Microsoft has filed a federal lawsuit against an alleged hacker who broke through its copy protection technology, charging that the mystery developer somehow gained access to its copyrighted source code. For more than a month,... Read more...

$10,000 prize for code cracker

Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:03:00 +0000

A code developed for wireless networking has been successfully cracked by a mathematician from Indiana's University of Notre Dame and the combined computational power of 10,000 computers. Over a total of 549 days... Read more...