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Amazon cloud can help hack WiFi networks: expert — (Reuters) – A security researcher says he has figured out a quick and inexpensive way to break a commonly used form of password protection for wireless networks using powerful computers that anybody can lease from Amazon.com Inc over the Web.
Meanwhile, a related virus seems to be creeping across Twitter … We cannot provide any more information as to how the attack was carried out, because this could be used against us.”
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… week’s Twitter attack that caused a widespread headache for the micro-blogging service appears to have been triggered by a Japanese computer … spurred others like Australian teenager Pearce Delphin of …
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The best defense against data theft, malware and viruses in the cloud is self defense, researchers at the Hack In The Box (HITB) security conference said. But getting people to change how they use the Internet, such as what personal data they make …