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Fake Google exploit 'wildly mature'Miscreants are actively exploiting a gaping hole in the internet's address lookup system that can cause millions of web surfers to receive counterfeit pages when they try to access online banking services and other types of websites.… read more »
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DNS patch averts doom scenarioBlack Hat After a four-week orgy of speculation, recrimination and warnings, Dan Kaminsky's domain-name system vulnerability has finally gone public. And boy, are we glad the net's overlords paid attention.… read more »
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Sorry, CharlieDefcon A transit agency in New England has filed a federal lawsuit to stop three Massachusetts Institute of Technology grad students from publicly presenting research at Defcon demonstrating gaping security holes in two of the agency's electronic payment systems.… read more »
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From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 01:31:24 -0500 (CDT)http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=105167By Jeremy KirkIDG news service02 October 2008Data on radio chips can be cloned and modified without detection, according to a security researcher, raising question marks over the use of so-called e-passports that use RFID chips.Upwards of 50 countries are rolling out passports with embedded RFID (radio frequency identification) chips containing biometric and pe read more »
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