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Researcher's hypothesis may expose uber-secret DNS flaw
Responsible disclosure debate rages on
Two weeks ago, when security researcher Dan Kaminsky announced a devastating flaw in the internet's address lookup system, he took the unusual step of admonishin
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2008-07-21 14:28:36
Researchers release 'cold boot' attack utilities
A way around disk encryption
The security researcher who demonstrated the 'cold boot' attack has released the source code for the hack. The attack, first demonstrated in February, uses a set of utilit
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2008-07-21 11:56:27
US cyberspying fears hang over Beijing Olympics
Dithers over threat level
US paranoia about Chinese computer hackers has created a diplomatic dilemma about whether or not to warn visitors and business people traveling to next month's Beijing Olympi
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2008-07-21 02:02:04
Researchers show up deniable file system crypto leaks
Deny deny denied
Crytography researchers have demonstrated weaknesses in encryption technology used to create so-called deniable file systems (DFS).…
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2008-07-18 08:39:41
Firefox sweeps away carpet bombing bug
Updates fix several vulns
Mozilla has plugged two critical security holes in versions 2 and 3 of Firefox.…
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2008-07-17 05:28:27
Unpatched Windows PCs own3d in less than four minutes
Gone in 240 seconds
An unpatched PC is likely to last just four minutes on the internet before been attacked and compromised.…
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2008-07-15 06:45:44
Enough With Default Allow in Web Applications!
The title of this blog post is also the title of a research paper we are currently working on. Although the paper is still in draft form, we've decided to circulate it widely (download here) bec
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2008-07-15 03:40:00
Relay server attack tactic dupes auto-reporting
Nap-of-the-earth strikes on the horizon
Sysadmins have begun noticing a coordinated attack on servers with open SSH ports that tries to stay under the radar by only attempting to guess a password thre
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2008-07-14 01:02:03
Thales swoops on nCipher for hardware encryption goodness
Scrambling for safety
Thales, the French defence electronics firm, is buying hardware-based encryption specialist nCipher for around £50.7m ($100.3m). This works out at 300p a share, a 15 per cent pr
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2008-07-11 06:18:46
Web Application Firewall Use Cases Update
My list of web application firewall use cases continues to involve. I've decided to shuffle things somewhat:
I am going to remove the "Network building blocks" use case because that is real
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2008-07-10 04:13:00
