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Hacker turns toy into tool that can open garage doors in seconds

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Owners of fixed-code garage door openers might want to consider upgrading them because a researcher has developed a technique that guesses the numbers in seconds.

To showcase the new attack, which he dubbed Open Sesame, security researcher Samy Kamkar reprogrammed a children’s toy designed for short-distance texting called Radica Girl Tech IM-me because it has all the needed wireless components and because “it’s pink,” his favorite color.

With a fixed-code garage door opener, the remote control, or “clicker” always transmits the same 8 to 12-bit binary code. For a 12-bit code, there are 4,096 possible combinations — strings of 1s and 0s.

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Anatomy of a cryptoglitch – Apple’s iOS hotspot passphrases crackable in 50 seconds

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If you use your iPhone or iPad as a Wi-Fi hotspot, don’t let it generate the passphrase for you. A posse of German computer scientists has found that Apple’s iOS passphrase generator may give you less than a minute of security.
Naked Security – Sophos

Is your laptop still unencrypted? Perhaps 7 seconds of CCTV might change your mind…

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Here’s a video that might make you think twice about taking your laptop out into the world unencrypted. This is “data theft” in the most literal sense…
Naked Security – Sophos

20 Seconds to jailbreak Windows RT

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There’s not a whole lot you can do in half of a minute, but thanks to XDA Developers “netham45,” you can run a new tool and jailbreak Microsoft Surface in 20 seconds.
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