I have updated the information I wrote about what I consider to be a potentially new type of cryptanalysis attack. Although the described attack is relevant to my BUGS algorithm, it could also be used to attack any algorithms using some type of Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) or Cipher Feedback (CFB) mode of operation, in [...]
The following article from Macworld describes a new patent from Apple to detect jail-broken iphone/ipad. It also gives an interesting security twist on that patent, where it is in theory possible to take hidden photos and voice recording of a potential thief, analyse the accelerometer data to define if the thief is walking, driving or [...]
There is maybe nothing new about governments protecting their national hackers but this is a good example on how a hacker can openly operate in his own country and then get caught in another. The article below also makes reference to an earlier case where a Russian hacker was lured to the USA and arrested [...]
According to the article below both companies’ board of directors have agreed a deal. With Intel looking at providing some “hardware-enhanced” security i wonder if we will one day see an AV aware CPU? :) SC Magazine Article According to the article below both companies’ board of directors have agreed a deal. With Intel looking [...]
A rather large selection of news as I missed last week weekly digest! Are Anti Virus Obsolete? I recently had a discussion with a work colleague who was claiming Anti Virus are not as good at preventing infections as they used to be, technology is moving fast and Anti Virus vendors seem to be playing [...]
WPA Cracking An interesting reference on Schneier’s blog to an article describing a “in the cloud” service to crack WPA keys. It is the realisation of the concept of distributed security cracking mentioned in 2008 by Chad Perrin, not sure if he was the first to introduce that idea. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=4097 WPA2 Vulnerability – Hole 196 A new man-in-the-middle attack [...]
Truecrypt is a tool I have been using for a while, it is a great product and… free! It allows for full disk encryption, being your desktop hardisk or a USB stick. A new version has just been released, version 7, and it now provides: – Hardware acceleration – Auto-mount (windows) – Security improvements related [...]
This morning I checked my spam folder related to this website/domain name and noticed there had been no new spam for about a week… not that I am missing it but this did not sound quite right! Indeed, it looks like my service provider recently had some issues with one of their site being compromised [...]
