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The increase of graphics cards that come equipped with processors could pose a serious security risk as hackers use them as low-cost, high-speed tools to crack passwords, according to researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).Graphic processing units or GPUs can provide "supercomputer-level power to any desktop" at a cost of just a few hundred dollars, according to a case study posted to the GTRI website.While GPUs were designed to help computers handle the...

ST.PETERSBURG, Russia, August 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Software developer AccentSoft Team has released a new beta version of Accent OFFICE Password Recovery, a powerful and high-speed password recovery tool. The software incorporates greatly optimized search algorithms that enable a sevenfold acceleration of the recovery time of a strong password compared with previous versions. A good password is hard to invent and easy to forget. AccentSoft Team has addressed this problem with an...

Researchers believe there could be 46,000 crack cocaine users aged 15-44 in London, suggesting one in every hundred young adult Londoners could be a user. Research published online in the Society for the Study of Addiction, shows how researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Bristol, used statistical modelling to estimate the number of crack cocaine users aged between 15 and 44 across London. Dr Matthew Hickman, from Imperial College London, and an author of the paper,...