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A Wi-Fi virus outbreak? Researchers say it's possible

2008-01-04 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
If criminals were to target unsecured wireless routers, they could create an attack that could piggyback across thousands of Wi-Fi networks in urban areas like Chicago or New York City, according to researchers at Indiana University
 
Tags: indiana university, york city, researchers, wireless routers, wi-fi networks, thousands, attack, chicago, criminals
 
 
 
 
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Storm splinters, starts phishing, say researchers

2008-01-10 00:00:00 by HASH0x895cf54 in Network World on Security
 
Part of the Storm botnet appears to have been rented out to identity thieves, who are using it to conduct traditional phishing attacks that target customers of a pair of U.K.-based banks, researchers said Wednesday
 
Tags: storm botnet appears, identity thieves, target customers, researchers, conduct traditional, banks, attacks, pair, wednesday
 
 
 
 
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Researchers figure out how to crack GSM phone security

2008-02-21 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Two researchers claim they have figured out how to listen to calls sent over GSM cellular networks, cracking security that was previously thought to be unassailable
 
Tags: gsm cellular networks, security, researchers claim, calls, unassailable, previously
 
 
 
 
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Hard drive encryption has Achilles heel, say researchers

2008-02-21 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security
 
If you think that encrypting your laptop's hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University
 
Tags: hard drive, data safe, princeton university, researchers, laptop, eyes
 
 
 
 
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Researchers find hard drive encryption's Achilles' heel

2008-02-22 14:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Researchers at Princeton University have discovered a way to steal the hard drive encryption key used by several high-profile products. With that key, hackers could get access to all of the data stored on an encrypted hard drive
 
Tags: hard drive, princeton university, researchers, high-profile products, access, data, hackers, key
 
 
 
 
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Beware MonaRonaDona antivirus scam, researchers warn

2008-03-03 00:00:00 by Ellen Messmer in Network World on Security
 
If your computer gets infected with a Trojan called the "MonaRonaDona virus," be careful with what you use to wipe it off your computer, says antimalware software provider Kaspersky Lab. MonaRonaDona is part of an elaborate scam to sell fake antivirus software, Kaspersky researchers say
 
Tags: monaronadona, monaronadona virus, fake antivirus software, kaspersky researchers, computer, scam, trojan, wipe, careful
 
 
 
 
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Researchers: GSM mobile security on the ropes

2008-03-28 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The security of the world's most widely used standards for transmitting mobile phone calls is dangerously flawed, two researchers warned at the Black Hat conference in Amsterdam
 
Tags: black hat conference, mobile phone calls, researchers, security, amsterdam, dangerously, widely, world, standards
 
 
 
 
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Researchers: Microsoft's CAPTCHAs easy to solve

2008-04-15 00:00:00 by HASH0x847301c in Network World on Security
 
Microsoft's system to thwart automatic registrations of e-mail accounts leads to "a false sense of security," according to two researchers who have developed a low-cost way to break the security mechanism
 
Tags: security mechanism, e-mail accounts leads, security, thwart automatic registrations, researchers, false sense, microsoft, system, low-cost
 
 
 
 
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NULL pointer exploit excites researchers

2008-04-17 00:00:00 by HASH0x8b3cd84 in Network World on Security
 
...researchers, and eventually the world at large, to the inherent exploitability of buffer overflows and introduced techniques that would form the basis of proving that a vulnerability was exploitable (as well as the basis of any number of exploits themselves
 
Tags: information security researchers, inherent exploitability, basis, buffer overflows, exploits, stack, form, world, profit