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The CryptoLocker ransomware has been cracked by the researchers at Fox-IT and FireEye, and a free decryption tool to decrypt the locked files has been made available to the public.

Steven Johns · Aug 7, 2014 · Hot! with 20 comments

It was recently reported that a German computer engineer outlined his plans to to crack GSM encryption and make his results public. Well now, he's actually done it. The New York Times is reporting that...

Benjamin Rubenstein · Dec 29, 2009 · Hot! with 53 comments

Windows 7 has yet to even be released officially to the general public, and already the dodgy folk on the Internet have fully cracked and activated the Ultimate version, with help from a leaked Lenovo...

Sam Symons · Jul 29, 2009 · Hot! with 255 comments

Hulu is trying to keep its content restricted to traditional browsers. By doing so it hopes to shut down clients such as Boxee and other apps that enable the websites content to be distributed...

Brad Sams · Apr 1, 2009 · Hot! with 27 comments

The cat-and-mouse game continues between Microsoft and a group of hackers intent on breaking the copy protection technology on its Windows Media files. This time, an individual has cracked the latest DRM scheme employed by...

Steven Parker · Jul 20, 2007 with 5 comments

Thanks to voidunknown for submitting this to the Front Page. It appears that Keznews forum member Computer User has discovered a method that effectively obtains a Windows Vista key which can then be activated. The...

· Mar 1, 2007 · Hot! with 41 comments

Has the HD DVD next-generation optical disc format's anti-rip technology been cracked? That's certainly what's being claimed by a programmer going by the name muslix64 who has posted a Java-based app he maintains will free...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Dec 28, 2006 · Hot! with 56 comments

35 days before Windows XP was officially released, a pirated key, called the "devils0wn", began circulating around the web which allowed users to run a pirated copy of the operating system. Since then, the key...

Steven Parker · Dec 6, 2006 · Hot! with 58 comments

Samsung is claiming to have cracked 4G, while most of the mobile industry couldn't tell you what it is yet. The electronics giant says it will demonstrate the high-speed technology at the Samsung 4G...

· Sep 1, 2006 · Hot! with 1 comment

A user on the the doom9.org message boards has posted links to a program called FairUse4WM that is capable of removing Microsoft's DRM 10, which protects files offered by "Plays For Sure" compatible music stores....

· Aug 29, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

At the end of 2005 I made some predictions about the VoIP industry which I will review further in a day or two. While a couple of my predictions have already proved correct, perhaps the...

Steven Parker · Jul 14, 2006 · Hot! with -1 comments

Finnish security firm F-Secure has cracked a code used by the Soberworm, potentially allowing the company to block the worm from receivingupdates. Sober has mutated constantlysince October 2003, when the first...

· Dec 13, 2005 with -1 comments

Web blog 'Boing Boing' is reporting that less than 24 hours after it's release, Windows Genuine Advantage has been "cracked" by a simple javascript exploit. AV sez, "This week, Microsoft started requiring users...

Steven Parker · Jul 28, 2005 · Hot! with 2 comments

Neowin previously reported on the work done by Cody Brocious to get iTunes working on Linux; in a soon to be released updated version, Cody and his group have announced plans to support the Napster...

· Apr 13, 2005 · Hot! with 1 comment

EVEN THOUGH Microsoft has not yet released service pack 2 for Windows XP, word reaches the INQ that its anti-piracy features have already been cracked open. Microsoft has claimed that it's introduced features in SP2...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jul 5, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

Thanks aisoku from our BPN forum for this... Both legitimate and unlicensed users of Microsoft's XP operating system software will be able to download the Service Pack 2 security patch for free. Microsoft's...

Daniel Fleshbourne · May 9, 2004 · Hot! with -1 comments

Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen, who broke the DVD encryption scheme, has opened iTunes locked music a tad further, by allowing people to play songs they've purchased on iTunes Music Store on their GNU/Linux computers....

Tom Warren · Jan 5, 2004 · Hot! with 2 comments

Nokia will today be licking its wounds and doing a fair amount of worrying, with the revelation that the N-Gage's security has been cracked like an egg, with other manufacturers' handsets able to play the...

Marcel Klum · Nov 11, 2003 with -1 comments

A new version of random nut's k++ has been released. Some of the new features are: More keyboard shortcuts (thanks to Aldo) Dat View / AVI Preview / Sig2Dat / My Shared Folder /...

· Feb 3, 2003 with 2 comments

KaZaA Lite Cracked K++ 2.0.2 build 5 is released. Make sure you have the lastest version of KaZaA Lite Cracked K++ 2.0.2. This should be the last build for a long while, at least until...

Daniel Fleshbourne · Jan 17, 2003 with -1 comments

Heres another update to the "stripped" version of KaZaA thanks to betas.intercom Extra improvements: Unlimited number of sources per file is now possible, the default maximum is set at 40 however in KaZaA lite,...

Steven Parker · Jan 14, 2003 with 2 comments

One person I know has one of these, and was rather peeved that he could NOT run "his own" apps on this beast, but now, according to sites The Register and MoDaCo, some clever fellows...

· Jan 14, 2003 with -1 comments

A great version of Kazaa. Extra improvements: Unlimited number of sources per file is now possible, the default maximum is set at 40 however in KaZaA lite, this value can also be changed...

· Jan 12, 2003 with 1 comment

Here's a bit taken from the XBoxhacker forum. "On behalf of the Xbox Linux Team (https://xbox-linux.sf.net), I am proud to announce that at 10:45BST the 'v1.1' secure version of the Xbox was proven...

Marcel Klum · Oct 13, 2002 with 1 comment

Thanks M F whoever you may be that sent this in via email. Technology buffs have cracked music publishing giant Sony Music's elaborate disc copy-protection technology with a decidedly low-tech method: scribbling around the rim...

Steven Parker · May 20, 2002 with -1 comments

Todd Hollenshead posted a .plan update over at Webdog Name: Todd Hollenshead Email: toddh@idsoftware.com Description: CEO Project: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12/11/2001 Software pirates beware: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2001/December/01_crm_643.htm ...

Marcel Klum · Dec 12, 2001 with -1 comments

It looks like just a few days after the WorldWide launch of Windows XP, that the Warez community has now finally got a CRACK for Windows XP, according to the Inquirer. Now Bitarts...

· Oct 28, 2001 with -1 comments

THE HACKERS AND THE CRACKERS have been fiddling around with the evaluation copy of XP and have managed to make it into the Corporate Edition. The only difference between the eval edition -...

· Sep 2, 2001 with -1 comments