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AES Proved Vulnerable by Microsoft Researchers

18

Aug

2011

Researchers from Microsoft and the Dutch Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications. Their attack can recover an AES secret key from three to five times faster than previously thought possible, reported the […]

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Sophos Antivirus Flaws Revealed at Hacker Conference

07

Aug

2011

LAS VEGAS — A researcher presenting at Black Hat picked apart Sophos Antivirus software and found it lacking in several areas that leave it vulnerable to attack or circumvention — something he says might apply to other antivirus vendors’ products as well, but he just hasn’t looked. Tavis Ormandy, who works as a researcher for […]

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Tavis Ormandy and Sophos

05

Aug

2011

As a security company keeping our customers safe is our primary responsibility, therefore we investigate all vulnerability reports and implement the best course of action in order to protect our customers. Recently, researcher Tavis Ormandy contacted us about an examination he was doing of Sophos’s anti-virus product – not in terms of possible vulnerabilities – […]

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