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Relay attacks on card payment: vulnerabilities and defences

2008-01-09 00:01:52 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...relay attack and demonstrating that it can be prevented by distance bounding protocols. My talk ( abstract ) was filmed and the video can be found below. For more information, we produced a webpage and the details can be found in our paper slides (PDF 9.6M) | video (BitTorrent MPEG4, 106M The CCC is a great conference to attend and a good...
 
Tags: dns, security, cellphone jammer dns, security michael steil, talks, henryk pltz describe, chaos communication congress, annie machon describes, arbitrary tcp streams
 
 
 
 
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Security Flaw Turns Gmail into Open-Relay Server

2008-05-11 04:02:32 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
A newfound flaw in Google's Gmail allows would-be spammers to treat the service as an open-relay server. Compounding the issue is the fact that services such as Hotmail and Yahoo "trust" Gmail. This may facilitate e-mail delivery, but it also makes it easier for spammers to reach their intended targets
 
Tags: open-relay server, gmail, would-be spammers, spammers, e-mail delivery, newfound flaw, google, reach, treat
 
 
 
 
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ORDB offline

2007-01-16 05:38:45 by Administrator in Email security & compliance blog
 
...relay database ordb.org is now officially offline. For five and a half years the ORDB volunteers maintained a comprehensive list of known open relays. ORDB.org posted the following notice on their website that is now no longer Its been a case of a long goodbye as very little work has gone into maintaining ORDB for a while. Our volunteer staff...
 
Tags: ordb, ordb volunteers, relay database ordb, anti-spam community, spam, comprehensive list, list, org, relay rbls
 
 
 
 
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The Cybercrime Economy

2008-01-02 07:21:53 by Editor in Schneier on Security
 
Interesting article: While standard commercial software vendors sell software as a service, malware vendors sell malware as a service, which is advertised and distributed like standard software. Communicating via internet relay chat (IRC) and forums, hackers advertise Iframe exploits, pop-unders
 
Tags: malware, internet relay chat, malware vendors, software, standard software, service, pop-unders, forums, irc
 
 
 
 
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Inside the Chinese Underground Economy

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2007-12-09 22:34:23 by HASH0x89e9090 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Relay Chat). They typically use bulletin board systems on the Web or IM software like QQ tocommunicate with each other. Orthogonal to a study on the underground black market located within IRC networks, we measure the Chinese-specific underground black market on the Web. We focus onthe most important part located at post.baidu.com, the...
 
Tags: chinese, chinese underground, underground, underground economy, chinese web, chinese red hackers, china, china eagle union, underground black market
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #71: VLAN Hopping, SIP Digest vulnerability, VoIP security hype, Skype security, Google's latest moves, listener comments and much more...

2007-12-17 19:59:44 by HASH0x89e9d58 in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...RELAY -ATTACK for Toll-Fraud VoiceCon ENews: VoIP Security Update (about my talk at Interop Telecom Junkies episode about VLAN Hopping Network World: VoIP security notices show security remains a multi-vendor issue also TechRepublic article about VoIP Hopper Network World: VoIP security industry: Guilty as charged (Plus, 10 nasty questions to...
 
Tags: voip, voip security hype, online voip, voip supplier, voip-news, voip security news, security, voip security industry, skype security
 
 
 
 
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Blue Box #71: VLAN Hopping, SIP Digest vulnerability, VoIP security hype, Skype security, Google's latest moves, listener comments and much more...

2007-12-02 13:58:15 by Dan York in Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast
 
...RELAY -ATTACK for Toll-Fraud VoiceCon ENews: VoIP Security Update (about my talk at Interop Telecom Junkies episode about VLAN Hopping Network World: VoIP security notices show security remains a multi-vendor issue ??? also TechRepublic article about VoIP Hopper Network World: VoIP security industry: Guilty as charged (Plus, 10 nasty...
 
Tags: voip, voip security hype, online voip, voip supplier, voip-news, voip security news, security, voip security industry, skype security
 
 
 
 
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Financial Ombudsman losing it?

2008-01-23 15:14:58 by Ross Anderson in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...relay attacks . Theres much more to come The radio program is not yet available online; Ill put in a link here when it appears. We clearly have them rattled; the ombudsman was patronising and abusive, and made a number of misleading statements. He also said that the independent Hunt review was commissioned by his board of directors. I hope it...
 
Tags: ombudsman, financial ombudsman service, service, submission, submission minuss, customers, bank customers, independent hunt review, fipr submission
 
 
 
 
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Windows stalked by rogue packets?

2008-02-28 00:00:00 by Jason Meserve in Network World on Security
 
...relay Spam. Hopefully, I am not inadvertently spamming people while on vacation
 
Tags: redmond patch department, windows, packets, security team, rogue, sounds scary, relay spam, auto-reply messages, story