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Attackers could steal crypto keys from mobile devices

Security researchers have discovered a way to steal cryptographic keys that are used to encrypt communications and authenticate users on mobile devices. Security researchers have discovered a way to steal cryptographic keys that are used to encrypt communications and authenticate users on mobile devices by measuring the amount of...

Tags: Cryptography Research, Attacker, Mobile, Radio Frequency, Radio, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Networking, security, crypto, Elinor Mills CNET News

News items 2009-10-21

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Sagemath 4.1.1 (Windows)

Sage can be used to study general and advanced, pure and applied mathematics. This includes a huge range of mathematics, including algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group theory, combinatorics, graph theory, exact linear algebra and much more. It combines various software packages...

Tags: Theory, Mathematics, Microsoft Windows, Algebra, Sage Foundation, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Software downloads 2009-08-28

Books: Entering the Age of Glosses

Here's the key to thinking about the future of writing, something straight out of the manuscript era: the humble gloss or "scholia," for those who prefer the Latin. They are the notes, in margins, footnotes at the bottom of a page (the standard starting around 1700) and later in the...

Tags: Movie, Audible Inc., Cryptography, Books, Copy, Kindle, Master File, Page Number, E-books, Digital Security, Security, Personal Technology, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2009-04-27

News to know: Apple, VMWare, Earth Day, Kaiser, MySpace

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Apple beats for Q2; Best non-holiday quarter; Netbook hardware 'junky' Jason D. O'Grady: Apple's Q209 earnings. Recession?...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Dana Blankenhorn, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Sam Diaz, MySpace, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Open Source, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2009-04-23

The return of L0phtCrack

More than two years after Symantec pulled the plug on L0phtCrack, the venerable password cracking tool is being prepped for a return to the spotlight. The original creators of L0phtCrack has reacquired the tool with plans to release a new version at next week's SOURCE Boston conference....

Tags: Symantec Corp., Password, Password Cracking, Tool, L0phtCrack, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2009-03-02

VeriSign buys Certicom to trump RIM

VeriSign said Friday it won a tug of war with Research in Motion over Certicom, a small company with public key encryption technology. In a statement, VeriSign said it would buy Certicom for the equivalent of $1.67 a share, a 26 percent premium to where Certicom traded...

Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., VeriSign Inc., Certicom Corp., Digital Signatures, Digital Security, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-01-23

VeriSign to acquire Certicom for $73 million

VeriSign and Certicom announced today that VeriSign will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Certicom for $92 million Canadian, or roughly $73 million U.S. at $2.10 Canadian ($1.67 U.S.) per share. Certicom Corp. provides cryptography solutions for software vendors and device manufacturers to embed security...

Tags: VeriSign Inc., Certicom Corp., Security, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-01-23

Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnet

What if security researchers were able to disrupt the leftovers of the Storm Worm botnet thanks to a flaw in its communication model allowing them to redirect infected hosts and eventually disinfect them, but fearing legal action have their hands tied? At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress,...

Tags: Node, Malware, Worm, Stormfucker, Waledac, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Quantum Computing and Cryptography: Their Impact on Cryptographic Practice

Quantum cryptography may find application in certain specific applications. For example, in securing metropolitan area data links. However, the constraints upon its use do not make it a practical solution for many popular applications of cryptography at this time. If research into quantum routers and quantum digital signatures bears fruit,...

Tags: Cryptography, Computing, Quantum Corp., Digital Security, Security

White papers 2009-01-01

Researchers hack wired keyboards, hijack keystrokes

A team of Swiss researchers say there are several ways to recover keystrokes from wired keyboards by simply measuring the electromagnetic radiations emitted when keys are pressed. In all, the team of researchers from the Security and Cryptography Laboratory in Lausanne, Switzerland, found four  different ways to...

Tags: Team, Radiation, Keyboards, Hardware, Peripherals, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-10-20

Google Chrome vulnerabilities starting to pile up

[ UPDATE: See below for Google's official response to these issues ] Security vulnerabilities in the new Google Chrome browser are beginning to pile up. Following our coverage of the carpet bombing combo threat and denial-of-service crashes, several readers have sent pointers to...

Tags: Google Inc., Vulnerability, Web Browser, Google Chrome, ModSecurity, Web Browsers, Security, Internet, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-05

Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride

A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free.  This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...

Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Got room in your heart for a hacker?

I was looking over famed security researcher and cryptography expert Bruce Schneier's blog today and found an article on hacking medical devices.  I have to admit that I was surprised, but I shouldn't have been.  These days, if you can build it, we can break it seems to be the...

Tags: Device, Researcher, Article, Hacker, Schneier, Hacking, Security, Digital Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-03-13

2008: The year of hack the vote?

The state of Ohio has released a comprehensive study of voting machine security and the report will have you longing for paper. A 334-page PDF report from the Ohio Secretary of State reveals insufficient security, poor implementation of security technology, lax auditing and shoddy ...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Access, EVEREST, Premier AV-TSX, Hart EMS, Security, Tools & Techniques, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Gaming technology helps finding oil

With the help of an IBM supercomputer, University of Houston UH seismic researchers are using video game technology to help them more effectively target oil reserves. IBM has installed a Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.) system 'that represents a new generation of powerful supercomputers with substantial parallelism built in at the...

Tags: Game, Processor, Cell, IBM Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-09-21

America is not the world and open source is grateful

America is not the world and open source is gratefulNot all Americans agreeMicrosoft's position unassailable? Puh-leese. With the way the patent ffice hands out transh patents for even the most obvious of inventions, Microsoft's position is anything but unassailable. It would be expensive to fight, yes. And they might have...

Tags: Government, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., America IS, patent, open source, software

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

The greatest book of all time

In the interest of making this blog more accessible to a variety of folks interested in educational technology, and not just budding Linux geeks like me, I started thinking this weekend about interesting ways to bring technology into the average classroom. (For a little bit of background, see the...

Tags: Class, Fiction, Paperback, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2007-08-28

Bill Gates seeks patent for ad-rebate program

I don't write a lot about Microsoft patent applications, as they're often so vague that guessing their true intent is an effort in futility. But when it's Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' name on the application, things get a little more interesting.Gates and a Microsoft researcher applied for a patent in...

Tags: Advertisement, Patent, Search Engine, Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., Patent Application, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-08-22

What is Intel's mobile Linux game?

What is Intel's mobile Linux game?what you've said is like a dog chasing its tail in circlesInnovators innovate - trueOpen source has provided no innovations. They just copy others innovation. Just another "Me too" or wanna be, not the real deal.So asking for spectrum to be given away for free...

Tags: game, Mobile Linux, Microsoft Corp., Ubuntu, open source, Intel Corp., innovation, Internet, mobile

Discussion threads 2007-07-17

Rutkowska faces '100% undetectable malware' challenge

At last year's Black Hat security conference, stealth malware researcher Joanna Rutkowska caused a stir with the introduction of Blue Pill, a new technology she claims can create malware that remains "100 percent undetectable."This year, a group of her peers will challenge Rutkowska to prove it, arguing that a...

Tags: Zero-day attacks, Windows Vista, Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Spyware and Adware, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Open source, Microsoft, Metasploit, Hackers, Exploit code, Digital rights management, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets, Apple

Blog posts 2007-06-27