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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 190 days ago
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206800800By J. Nicholas HooverInformationWeekFebruary 20, 2008Security researchers presenting Wednesday at the Black Hat D.C. conference in Washington, D.C., demonstrated technology in development that they say will be able to greatly decrease the time and money required to decrypt, and therefore snoop on, phone and text message conversations taking place on GSM networks.Many mobile operators worldwide use GSM networks, including T-Mobile and read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 189 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: update hard drive encryption achilles heel researchers comments Discuss  
If you think that encrypting your laptop's hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 189 days ago
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p strong The issue is described as a design limitation that could allow practical attacks against laptops in sleep or hibernation mode. br strong p ...Free Embedded Linux Webinars 5 free embedded Linux webinars from Timesys. Topics include Toolsets, Boot-Up, Filesystems & more. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 163 days ago
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Sniffing out bad sushiSecurity researchers are cooking up tactics for beating phishing fraudsters at their own game.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 154 days ago
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The security of the most widely used standard in the world for transmitting mobile phone calls is dangerously flawed, putting privacy and data at risk, two researchers warned at the Black Hat conference in Europe on Friday. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 136 days ago
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Microsoft's system to thwart automatic registrations of e-mail accounts leads to "a false sense of security," according to two researchers who have developed a low-cost way to break the security mechanism. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 134 days ago
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http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsID=11993By Robert McMillanIDG News Service16 April 2008For years, hackers have focused on finding bugs in computer software that give them unauthorised access to computer systems, but now there's another way to break in: hack the microprocessor.Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated how they altered a computer chip to grant attackers back-door access to a computer. It would take a lot of work to make this attack succee read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 128 days ago
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Security researchers are free to investigate Microsoft's online services for security bugs, without fear of prosecution -- as long as they submit the bugs they find "responsibly" to Microsoft, the company said this week. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 128 days ago
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http://abc.com.au/news/stories/2008/04/21/2223348.htmABC.com.auApril 21, 2008Quantum cryptography, a new technology until now considered 100 per cent secure against attacks on sensitive data traffic, has a flaw after all, Swedish researchers say."In computer terms, we've found a bug," said Jan-Aake Larsson, an associate professor of applied mathematics at the Linkoeping University in southern Sweden."It was surprising - we didn't expect to find a flaw," he said, adding that he and anoth read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 127 days ago
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Using off-the-shelf tools, exploits for software vulnerabilities can be crafted in as little as 30 seconds after studying the vendor's patch, according to a recently published research paper. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 126 days ago
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The fix could automate production of the attackA group of four computer scientists urged Microsoft to redesign the way it distributes patches, after they created a technique that automatically produces attack code by comparing the vulnerable and repaired versions of a program. The technique, which the researchers refer to as automatic patch-based exploit generation (APEG), can create attack code for most major types of vulnerabilities in minutes by automating the analysis of a patch designed to fix the fla read more »
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