Security researchers have uncovered the truth behind software that’s being advertised as a way to unlock industrial terminals without a password — it’s actually a malware dropper. The malware can ...

A threat actor is infecting industrial control systems (ICS) to create a botnet through password "cracking" software for programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Advertised on various social media ...

Russian security vendor Elcomsoft is offering a 20% discount for law enforcement and government agencies for some of its password-cracking software. Elcomsoft, based in Moscow, makes an array of ...

We wrote recently about developer James Bossert, whose Whack 'em All iPhone game had shifted 811 copies, of which only 196 had actually been paid for. His game was being distributed after Apple s DRM ...

A Russian security company has upgraded a phone-password cracking suite with the ability to figure out the master device password for Research in Motion’s BlackBerry devices. Elcomsoft said on ...

In some corners of cyberspace they are considered gods, but Australian researchers have found social kudos means little to software crackers. Instead Australian National University researcher Dr Sigi ...

From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong file comes this: People hawking password-cracking software are targeting the hardware used in industrial-control facilities with malicious code that makes their ...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer called DVD-cracking software DeCSS a tool for "breaking, entering and stealing" during a hearing before the California Supreme Court on Thursday. "The program ...