Cold bits as a security bypass
Columnist Scott Bradner discusses how worried you should really be about a new disk-encryption bypass exposed by Princeton security researchers
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The bad guys will use BitLocker, too
...bypass the encryption
The answer is very simple, and I'm sure not what he wanted to hear: there are no back doors. Period
Think about it for a moment: if there were a back door, would you trust the technology? Of course not. If Microsoft incorporated a mechanism to bypass the encryption, then we'd be weakening the technology for 99.9% of the...
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Donor personal information was on Lifeblood stolen laptop
...bypass/change and I am also guessing that there is (was) a password to access the database or the program that opens the database. The second password probably isn't that hard to crack/bypass either
The organization is notifying all of the approximately 320,000 affected individuals about the situation and encouraging them to place fraud...
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Designing Processors to Support Hacking
...bypass traditional defensive techniques. Yet current work on trojan circuits considers only simple attacks against the hardware itself, and straightforward defenses. More complex designs that attack the software are unexplored, as are the countermeasures an attacker may take to bypass proposed defenses
We present the design and implementation...
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IPS - is it soup yet? Mike Chapple says yes and no
...bypass or other fail open device, you are asking for trouble. Also, don't settle for the sales guy telling you the software or appliance is designed to fail open. In a power failure that isn't going to help. Make sure it is a self-powered bypass to be sure
All in all it was a good validation for me to read this article. I think IPS is at a...
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Designing a Malicious Processor
...bypass traditional defensive techniques. Yet current work on trojan circuits considers only simple attacks against the hardware itself, and straightforward defenses. More complex designs that attack the software are unexplored, as are the countermeasures an attacker may take to bypass proposed defenses
We present the design and implementation...
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Auditing open source software
...bypass of the size check. A subsequent additional integer overflow in the allocation of a buffer leads to a heap-based buffer overflow
gunzip . In September 2006, my colleague Tavis Ormandy reported some interesting vulnerabilities in the gunzip decompressor. They were triggered when an evil compressed archive is decompressed. A lot of...
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Putting all one's eggs in a single basket
...bypass this protection by combining two fraud techniques: Pharming and man-in-the-middle ( MITM
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Autorun: good for you?
...bypass the autorun.inf file -- but do you really want to rely on individual users remembering this? Nope. Group policy is your security friend: put it to good use here and disable autorun right now
BTW, Sony is up to their dirty old tricks again
Updated, 22 September 2007. Turns out there's a registry key that keeps track of all USB drives...
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Russia's FSB vs Cybercrime
2007-12-20 15:44:16 by HASH0x89b8758 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...bypass it as a point of engagement, efficiently
Don't forget that a country that's poised for asymmetric warfare domination in the long-term, will tolerate any such asymmetric warfare capabilities in the form of botnets for instance, for as long as they're not aimed at the homeland, in order for the country's intell services to acquire...
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