Posts Tagged ‘master key’

MegaPWN: major flaw or PR stunt?

Sep

2013

Since an article on MegaPWN got slashdoted on Tuesday, the now infamous tool by software developer Michael Koziarski gathered a significant amount of attention. As often, comments were a mix of “this guy didn’t invent anything” (usually laid in a more sarcastic form) and “this is interesting” (usually laid in a more panicked form, involving […]

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Trojan that exploits new vulnerability spreads via Android applications catalogue

Jul

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web discovered the first malignant application for Android that spreads by exploiting the vulnerability Master Key. Android.Nimefas.1.origin can send text messages, transmit confidential information to criminals and allows intruders to remotely execute certain commands on the infected mobile device. Currently the Trojan is spread with games and applications which are available […]

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Quickpost: Disassociating the Key From a TrueCrypt System Disk

Feb

2012

TrueCrypt allows for full disk encryption of a system disk. I use it on my Windows machines.You probably know that the TrueCrypt password you type is not the key. But it is, simply put, used to decrypt the master key that is in the volume header.On a system drive, the volume header is stored in […]

Category Security Written by Didier Stevens 0 Comments

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