WarGames.MY 2011, Malaysia’s first online capture the flag competition, aims to bring the fun of tinkering and puzzle solving back to hacking! The event will allow Malaysian ‘hackers’ to showcase their skills in a secure and contained environment and prove that they are amongst the best the country has to offer.
While in principle unbreakable, quantum cryptography is known to have weaknesses in practice. One shortcoming has now been graphically illustrated by physicists in Singapore and Norway, who have been able to copy a secret quantum key without revealing their presence to either sender or receiver. The researchers are now working to remove the loophole they have exposed.
For any company that makes its living selling security, it's a nightmare come true. This week, RSA Security admitted that hackers who broke into its network three months ago had stolen information about its SecurID tokens and then used that information to attack a customer, Lockheed Martin.
The Federal Government's peak security agency has recommended that departments and agencies accept the offer by troubled security vendor RSA to replace copies of its SecurID key fob identification tokens.
The SecurID platform sees small devices commonly known as "key fobs" distributed to staff and customers of major organisations, who then use the randomised codes created by the fobs to authenticate their credentials when they log in to sensitive systems such as internet banking platforms or government system.
The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Ponemon Institute released a full report on the perceptions about self-encrypting drives.
The study interviewed 517 IT practitioners in financial services, the public sector, retailing, healthcare, technology and other fields who were familiar with self-encrypting drives (SEDs).
A French provider of SSL certificates appears to have made a bit of a boo-boo in its webserver configuration: publishing its private key for the world to see, and opening up a potentially serious security hole in the world's web browsers.
SSL certificates serve two purposes on the Internet: to encrypt information, and to verify a webserver's identity. An SSL certificate is what is used to keep the password you log in to your Internet banking site private, and also serves to ensure that you're genuinely logging in to the bank's own server.
WE'RE living in a world where sharing is fun, but that isn't necessarily the case if you're a business. So for times when hurling your data into everyone’s bedroom isn’t going to please the boss, there's always the option of encryption.
Jesmond-based GCrypt is a specialist in document and email transfer, encrypting data such as payslips and invoices and transferring it. However, it’s now also applying its talents to technology which has caught the eye of the UK government.
Pssst. Dude, wanna score? What do you want? Acid, weed, X, 'Ludes? No problem ... you can now buy your favorite illegal substances online with (in theory) completely anonymity. Moreover, you won't be buying the "bad" stuff because you can see the seller's reputation as rated by his or hers previous clients!
Russian hacker Efim Bushmanov has claimed that he has reverse-engineered the well-protected source code of the popular Skype software application that allows users to make voice and video calls over the Internet.
"My aim is to make Skype open source. And find friends who can spend many hours for completely reverse it," Bushmanov wrote in his blog. Bushmanov is using a recently created Blogspot account in Google to publish the results of his "research."
Researchers have discovered a flaw in the system used by Nikon professional digital cameras to ensure images have not been tampered with.
Normally, in high-end SLR digital cameras a unique and encrypted signing key is appended to an image when it is taken, which is verified in Nikon's case by its proprietary Image Authentication System. If an image is edited this key will be overwritten, an action that will be picked up by the software.
