It's about time! Microsoft finally kills off encryption cipher blamed for multiple cyberattacks - RC4 bites the dust at last

Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades. The decision follows years of documented abuse, repeated warnings from security ...
New York Post

Brute punches 14-year-old girl heading to gym in unprovoked NYC attack: cops, sources

An unhinged man slugged a 14-year-old girl as she walked to a Queens gym in a shocking unprovoked daytime attack last week, cops and sources said Thursday. The teen was walking at 184th Street and the ...
The Economist

Brute force is no match for today’s high-tech drug-runners

HeLLFIRE MISSILES used to strike terrorist hideouts in the mountains of Afghanistan. Now they rain down on the sparkling waters of the Caribbean. Small boats and their crews, alleged drug-traffickers, ...
C&EN

Symmetry-Constrained Monte Carlo for the Crystal Structure Prediction of Small Organic Molecules

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. The prediction of crystal structures from the bare knowledge of molecular connectivity ...
CSOonline

Brute force attacks hitting SonicWall firewall configuration backups

SonicWall is warning admins that recent brute force attacks on its firewall’s API service for cloud backup could have exposed backup configuration files stored in its cloud portal. Affected are ...
Frontiers

COCαDA - a fast and scalable algorithm for interatomic contact detection in proteins using Cα distance matrices

1 Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems, Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 2 Laboratory of Bioinformatics, Visualization and Systems, ...
Dread Central

‘Brute 1976’ Review: A Brutal Piece of Nostalgia

For those who enjoy unapologetic homages to 1970s horror, I won’t mince my words: Add Brute 1976 to your summer watch list immediately. Resurrecting the cheesiness of desert-dwelling psychos who kill ...
Bleeping Computer

Spike in Fortinet VPN brute-force attacks raises zero-day concerns

A massive spike in brute-force attacks targeted Fortinet SSL VPNs earlier this month, followed by a switch to FortiManager, marked a deliberate shift in targeting that has historically preceded new ...
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Classes of Algorithms

Another name for brute force is exhaustive search. In these algorithms you consider every possible solution in the solution domain to find the optimal solution. Depending on the type of problem that ...
New York Post

Brute on FBI’s ‘most wanted’ list for tossing cinderblock during anti-ICE riots is finally busted at border

The masked brute accused of hurling concrete blocks at federal agents during the violent anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles has finally been arrested — getting cuffed at the border by one of the agents he ...
Bleeping Computer

Brute-force attacks target Apache Tomcat management panels

A coordinated campaign of brute-force attacks using hundreds of unique IP addresses targets Apache Tomcat Manager interfaces exposed online. Tomcat is a popular open-source web server widely used by ...