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Boomerang attack against AES better than blind chance
Posted by: lifeafter2am on July 03, 2009 10:45
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Cryptographic researchers have uncovered a chink in the armour of the widely used AES algorithm.
The attacks pose no immediate threat to the security of AES, but they do illustrate a technique for extracting keys that is better than simply trying every possible key combination....[more].
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Swatting phreaker swatted and heading to jail
Posted by: ttye0 on July 02, 2009 07:06
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In the US a 19-year-old phreaker (or phone phreak) has been sentenced to more than eleven years in prison because he placed numerous emergency calls resulting in the dispatch of special police units or SWAT teams (Special Weapons and Tactics). The SWAT teams arrived at the locations from which the calls were placed only to find sleeping families. Such incidents are increasingly common in the US, giving rise to the term swatting. In his calls to the 911 emergency line, the now convicted culprit sent falsified caller ID numbers and claimed to have hostages in custody. To change the caller ID function, the phreaker is reported to have manipulated several telephone networks, including AT&T, Sprint and Verizon. When a security specialist at Verizon discovered his activities and sought to investigate further, the phone phreak is said to have threatened the employee and made harassing calls to his land line number, while making the caller ID function appear to show friends and co-workers as placing the calls. At that point, the employee contacted the FBI....[more].
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IBM develops a way to process encrypted data
Posted by: ttye0 on July 01, 2009 10:39
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A researcher at IBM has developed a way to analyze encrypted data without decoding it, according to a statement from IBM. The breakthrough method leverages a concept called “fully homomorphic encryption,” and stems from achievements an IBM researcher, Craig Gentry, developed on a problem that has stymied researchers for nearly 30 years. "Fully homomorphic encryption is a bit like enabling a layperson to perform flawless neurosurgery while blindfolded, and without later remembering the episode,” Charles Lickel, vice president of software research at IBM, said in a statement....[more].
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Blind Hacker Hit with 11-Year Sentence
Posted by: lifeafter2am on June 30, 2009 11:59
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A blind Boston-area hacker was hit with more than 11 years in prison June 26 for his role in hacking into a telephone network and threatening the Verizon investigator building a case against him.
Matthew Weigman, 19, also known as "Little Hacker," was accused of being part of a gang of telephone hackers that made more than 60 fake emergency calls and broke into the phone network to make it appear as though the calls came from somewhere else. ...[more].
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iPhone 3G S unlocking Solution delayed by Hackers
Posted by: lifeafter2am on June 29, 2009 14:36
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Unlocking aka jailbreaking the iPhone is a similar to a war. Now the iPhone Dev Team made a strategic decision to not release the jailbreak solution for the new iPhone 3G S to not give Apple a chance to fix the security hole to early.
As reported yesterday the first images of a jailbroken iPhone 3GS appeared. The iPhone Dev Team says that jailbreaking the iPhone 3G S is technically no problem, but Apple could spoil the party very easily. ...[more].
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Activists Use U.S. Tech to Poke Holes in Iran Firewall
Posted by: lifeafter2am on June 27, 2009 14:52
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Tehran’s demonstrators rose up by themselves. But the technology that helped them organize — and helped them connect with the rest of the planet — was funded in part by the U.S. government.
Early in the pro-democracy protests, everyone made a big deal out of the State Department’s call to Twitter, asking the short-messaging firm to reschedule maintenance so the Iranian opposition movement could keep communicating. In retrospect, that might have been one of least meaningful moves an American agency made on the activists’ behalf. More important, it now appears, are the millions of dollars invested over the years in technologies that could pry open the Iranian firewall — and avoid the Supreme Leader’s web censors....[more].
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Critical Adobe Shockwave flaw affects millions
Posted by: lifeafter2am on June 26, 2009 10:14
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Adobe’s Shockwave Player contains a critical vulnerability that could be exploited by remote hackers to take complete control of Windows computers, according to a warning from the software maker.
The flaw affects Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.0.596 and earlier versions. Details from Adobe’s advisory:...[more].
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Seven Deadly Sins of Home Office Security
Posted by: ttye0 on June 25, 2009 09:07
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According to the human resources association World at Work, 17.2 million Americans worked from home or remotely at least one day per month for their employer last year (See also: 4 Telecommuting Security Mistakes). And the 2007 book 'Microtrends' estimates that 4.2 million Americans work full-time from home.
Good security is a key to good productivity. CSO spoke with two home office security experts about security mistakes home office workers often make (and how to avoid those errors)....[more].
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Nine-ball attack splits security researchers
Posted by: lifeafter2am on June 24, 2009 09:11
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Security researchers are split over the seriousness of a web attack dubbed "Nine-ball" which broke onto the internet last week.
Websense last week reported a web attack dubbed "Nine-ball", a moniker derived from the name of ninetorag.in, one of the malware hosts associated with the assault, had claimed 40,000 website victims....[more].
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Hackers make a killing trading compromised PCs on "Golden Cash"
Posted by: lifeafter2am on June 23, 2009 02:01
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It's dubbed the Golden Cash network, and serves as a type of online exchange for cybercrooks to buy and sell access to batches of compromised PCs.
The reach and impact of Golden Cash botnet (a network of commandeered PCs) is far more extensive than the "average affiliation network operated by cyber criminals," according to security firm Finjan Inc. ...[more].
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