Long a Target, Sony’s PS3 Faces Pirate Onslaught
A run on programmable USB boards suggests that an open source version of the recent PSJailbreak could make it tough for Sony to stamp out PS3 piracy.
Cryptography
New Threats Will Emerge in IPv6
The countdown to the saturation of the IPv4
address supply is now down to a matter of months: and along with the
vast address space of the next-generation IPv6 architecture comes more
built-in network security as well as some new potential security
threats. Read the full article. [Dark Reading]
Discover Will Receive $5 Mil from Heartland Breach
Heartland Payment Systems has agreed to pay $5 million to Discover to
settle claims arising from the massive data breach disclosed by the
payment processor last year. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the
University of Erlangen-Nürnberg together with the Max Planck Institute
for the Science of Light in Erlangen have recently developed and tested a
technique exploiting imperfections in quantum cryptography systems to
implement an attack. Read the full article. [Science Daily]
Organized cyber thieves stole more than $600,000 from the Catholic Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa
earlier this month with the help of
dozens of unwitting co-conspirators hired through work-at-home job
scams, at least one of whom was told the money was being distributed to
victims of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandals. Read the full article. [KrebsonSecurity]
According to the developers, the latest release of the free SSH
connectivity tools include a number of bug fixes and several new
features. Read the full article. [The H Security]
In this video from the OWASP AppSec Research conference in Sweden, security researcher Ivan Ristic of Qualys discusses practical methods for breaking SSL.
Penn State researchers managed to
identify the pass code patterns on two Android smartphones (the HTC G1
and the HTC Nexus One), 68 percent of the time using photographs taken under
different lighting conditions, and camera positions. Read the full article. [ZDNet]
Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Hutton of the Verizon Business RISK team about the new Data Breach Investigations Report, the involvement of the Secret Service in this year’s report and the need for more and better data on attacks and successful defenses.
A password of less than seven characters will soon be “hopelessly
inadequate” even if it contains symbols as well as alphanumerical
characters, according to computer scientists at the Georgia Tech
Research Institute. Read the full article. [The Register]
