Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
There are confirmed reports on a new version of the Gpcode ransomware being spread via a botnet.According to Vitaly Kamluk of Kaspersky Lab (my employer), the Trojan encrypts files on an infected machine (AES-256) and leaves a text file named crypted.txt with a ransom note demanding $10 to decrypt the ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Google has released Keyczar, billed as a "Toolkit for safe and simple cryptography", under an Apache 2.0 open source licence. Keyczar has been developed by members of the Google security team and aims to make cryptography more accessible to application developers.Keyczar's design goals were to manage the complexity of cryptography ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
Say hello to a new security tool called “Surf Jack” which demonstrates a security flaw found in many public sites. The proof of concept tool allows testers to steal session cookies on HTTP and HTTPS sites that do not set the Cookie secure flag. I’ve been working with two banks ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
A security researcher at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Saturday demonstrated a tool he built that allows attackers to break into your inbox even if you are accessing your Gmail over a persistent, encrypted session (using https:// versus http://).
When you log in to Gmail, Google's servers will ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
The big security news of Summer 2008 has been Dan Kaminsky's discovery of a serious vulnerability in DNS. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to redirect network clients to alternate servers of his own choosing, presumably for ill ends.This all led to a mad dash to patch DNS servers worldwide, ...
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