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Dennis Fisher is a journalist with more than 13 years of experience covering information security.
A new project has produced a large and growing list of the private SSL keys that are hard-coded into many embedded devices, such as consumer home routers. The LittleBlackBox Project comprises a list of more than 2,000 private keys right now, each of which can be associated with the public key of a given router, making it a simple matter for an attacker to decrypt the traffic passing through the device.
Attackers have begun using the bug in the Exim mailer that was disclosed earlier this week to install a rootkit on machines running vulnerable versions of the software.
This video is a short demo of an attack that researcher Billy Rios developed to exploit a series of bugs in browser plug-ins. By chaining the vulnerabilities together, Rios is able to steal content from a victim’s machine. The slides containing the code for the attack are available on Rios’s blog.
The WikiLeaks disclosures this fall that have precipitated so much controversy and agita among national security officials and politicians should not be used as a springboard for new, more restrictive laws, lawmakers, attorneys and policy analysts said in a House hearing Thursday.
The incredible allegations that developers working under the auspices of the FBI and Justice Department planted a backdoor in the IPSec stack of the OpenBSD operating system are likely just that, experts say: not credible.
Mozilla has decided to follow the lead of Google and expand its bug-bounty program to pay for vulnerabilities found on certain of its Web sites, including the site for Firefox and the main Mozilla site.
As attackers have focused more and more of their energies on exploiting bugs in Web applications, and specifically memory-corruption vulnerabilities, researchers have followed along, trying to find new ways to protect users from these attacks. One of the newer entrants in this field is a tool called HeapLocker, designed to prevent heap-spray attacks.
Google has pushed out a new version of its Chrome browser, fixing two high-priority security bugs as well as several other flaws.
Two major online ad networks–DoubleClick and MSN–were serving malware via drive-by download exploits over the last week, experts say, after a group of attackers was able to trick the networks into displaying their ads by impersonating an online advertising provider.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen the five finalists for the last round of its competition to find the next hash function standard. The SHA-3 finalists include Skein, developed by a group including Bruce Schneier and Jon Callas.
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