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The Beauty and the BEAST

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Sep

2011

Transport Layer Security – (TLS) is a protocol often used during HTTPS connections to secure web sites. For almost a decade, it has been known that TLS 1.0 was insecure and vulnerable to attack – primarily due to its usage of the Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) mode of operation. TLS version 1.1 and then TLS […]

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Trojan.Bioskit.1 infects BIOS

12

Sep

2011

In the first days of September a remarkable malware sample fell nto the hands of Doctor Web’s virus analysts. At first it seemed that the malicious program dubbed Trojan.Bioskit.1 carried a standard Trojan horse payload to infect the MBR and download something from the network. However, a more detailed analysis revealed that it also incorporated […]

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Google Web History Vulnerable to Firesheep Hack

11

Sep

2011

Two researchers have shown how a modded version of the Firesheep Wi-Fi sniffing tool can be used to access most of a victim’s Google Web History, a record of everything an individual has searched for. The core weakness discovered by the proof-of-concept attack devised by Vincent Toubiana and Vincent Verdot lies with what is called […]

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