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Testing Signature-based Antivirus Products Contest

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2008-05-02 06:31:36 by HASH0x8b205fc in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...signature scanning isn't working? There's no shortage of creativity and innovation on behalf of malware authors, and in reality,the good guys are supposed to learn from the bad guys in the sense of the techniques, tools and tactics they use to achieve such a high-level degree of now automated polymorphism. Moreover, the only thing the bad...
 
Tags: malware, malware authors, malware variants, signature based malware, bad guys, guys, proprietary malware tools, tools, alternative malware
 
 
 
 
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Analysis of Automated Network Attack Signature Generation Models

2008-02-22 00:00:00 by Editor in Infosec Writers Latest Security Papers
 
The aim of this research, conducted by Shray Kapoor, is to analyze various automated signature generation approaches, catering to generation of efficient signatures for polymorphic worms and networks attacks
 
Tags: generation, signature generation approaches, shray kapoor, polymorphic worms, networks attacks, efficient signatures, research, aim, analyze
 
 
 
 
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Root of Trust ?

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2008-09-29 18:33:27 by Richard Clayton in Light Blue Touchpaper
...signature for outgoing e-mail. (**) June 1 through August 31. (the (**) is for a second level of footnote, which is absent and of course it is now September They also enable you to fetch the key through a link on this page to their PGP nyckel-ID at http://subkeys.pgp.net Unfortunately, fetching the key shows that the signature on the email is...
 
Tags: key, public key servers, trust, iis root key, key 0xf440ee9b, pgp, pgp nyckel-id, public key server, pgp key
 
 
 
 
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Why Do We Accept Signatures by Fax?

2008-05-29 01:00:00 by Bruce Schneier in Wired Security
 
...signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them Yet people do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card...
 
Tags: fax, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document, document
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them Yet people do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card...
 
Tags: fax, fax signatures, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document
 
 
 
 
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Fax Signatures

2008-06-03 07:01:20 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...signatures the weirdest thing? It's trivial to cut and paste -- with real scissors and glue -- anyone's signature onto a document so that it'll look real when faxed. There is so little security in fax signatures that it's mind-boggling that anyone accepts them Yet people do, all the time. I've signed book contracts, credit card...
 
Tags: fax, fax signatures, fax communications, fax insecurity, insecurity, fax machines, fax message, treat fax signatures, fax document
 
 
 
 
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Orkut XSS Worm

2007-12-20 16:18:37 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...signature=Bm1YihIUAe5I%2BAvfFH7v4bjtdrI%3D&Action.join POST request sent by the worm to submit itself to the scrapbook of the victims friends POST /Scrapbook.aspx HTTP/1.1 Host: www.orkut.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11 Accept:...
 
Tags: orkut, worm, post, community, orkut community, post scrapbook, xss worm, post requests, worm code
 
 
 
 
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Mujahideen Secrets 2 Encryption Tool Released

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2008-01-21 15:37:17 by HASH0x8b0f9c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...signature files and make sure it is correct Digital signature of messages and files and to ensure the authenticity of messages and files So far, Reuters picked up the topic - Jihadi software promises secure Web contacts The efficacy of the new Arabic-language software to ensure secure e-mail and other communications could not be...
 
Tags: secrets, tool, encryption, secrets encryption tool, encryption keys, keys, digital, digital signature files, islamic
 
 
 
 
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PayPal E-mail authentication

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2008-02-22 06:33:00 by Mike Rothman in Security Mike's Blog
...signature to any emails they send to you. Many of the major email client (yahoo and gmail for sure) will tell you the message is signed. This verifies that the message is actually from PayPal and not from an attacker. Below you can see what the signature looks like in Gmail. The "signed-by" and "mailed-by" fields show that paypal.com has sent...
 
Tags: paypal, security, security methods, security capabilities, account information, account, carry, signature, digital signature
 
 
 
 
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Adobe web portal exposes educational software users

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2008-05-07 16:31:31 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...signature Breach Description It appears that certain personal information was stored on a server accessed via an Adobe website portal at a time when the server did not contain security or authentication procedures. The server was created to allow customers to upload information in order to enable Adobe to validate a customer's qualification...