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A Robust Integrity Reporting Protocol for Remote Attestation
White Paper However, applying remote attestation solely allows masquerading attacks. This paper describes this kind of attacks against protocols for remote attestation and presents a protocol for preventing masquerading attacks. [31 Aug 2007]
Dissecting Phish - Hook, Line and Sinker
White Paper In computing, phishing (also known as carding and spoofing) is the act of attempting to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy person or business with a real need for... [23 Feb 2006]
Eyeball Any-Firewall Technology
White Paper Connecting subscribers requires a solution that can handle the complexities of firewalls, virtual IP addresses, port masquerading and other secure configurations. VoIP and video telephony are poised for mass adoption. [23 Sep 2005]
Secure Execution Via Program Shepherding
White Paper This distinction can ensure that malicious code masquerading as data is never executed, thwarting a large class of security attacks. This paper introduces program shepherding, a method for monitoring control flow transfers during program execution... [18 Apr 2007]
A Robust Classifier for Passive TCP/IP Fingerprinting
White Paper Finally as an application of this classifier, the number of hosts masquerading behind NAT devices is counted and results against prior techniques are evaluate. Using probabilistic learning, a naive Bayesian classifier to passively infer a host's... [06 Nov 2007]
Swen trumps Sobig to top virus league
News The most commonly received virus for September is a new entry - the Swen worm, which fools users into opening an attachment by masquerading as a Microsoft security update email. The virus made up 23.5 per cent of all reported viruses last month... [02 Oct 2003]
Virus warning: The bad Doctor is in
News The W32/dotor.A virus is masquerading as an anti-virus fix for macro viruses and it spreads via an email attachment titled Doctor.exe. Anti-virus experts are warning of a worm disguised as a virus warning threatening UK businesses. [27 Jun 2002]
HP leak probe investigator charged with ID theft
News Bryan Wagner is accused of masquerading as an unidentified journalist in order to obtain the reporter's private phone records, according to a copy of a criminal complaint filed in US District Court of the Northern District of California. [11 Jan 2007]
eBay traders targeted by email scam
News Over the past week, users of eBay's online payments service have been receiving emails masquerading as official PayPal alerts. Subscribers to online payment scheme PayPal are being sent emails aimed at conning them out of personal information. [10 Mar 2003]
Virus Alert: Prolin worm on the prowl
News Prolin spreads using a .exe entitled 'creative' masquerading as a Shockwave Flash movie. Prolin was created by an unknown hacker, using the pseudonym 'The Penguin' which Kasperksy believes identifies the author of the virus as a pro-Linux campaigner. [04 Dec 2000]
Antivirus vendors' worm alert email carries worm
News Kaspersky Labs said the message, sent on Thursday to subscribers of the company's "Virus News" email dispatch, had actually been sent by hackers masquerading as the company. A Russian antivirus company apologised late last week for an emailed virus... [11 Nov 2002]
White Paper: Indestructible Firewall in a Box V1.0
White Paper The type of firewall illustrated herein is a simple packet-filtering, masquerading setup. In this paper, the procedure for creating an embedded firewall whose root filesystem is loaded from a flash disk and then executed from a RAMdisk will be... [30 Jun 2008]
HP chairman facing calls to quit
News Pretexting is the practice of one person masquerading as another to obtain private information such as phone records. HP's board of directors met for several hours on Sunday but adjourned without announcing a decision on the fate of chairman... [11 Sep 2006]
HP embroiled in new spying row
News HP obtained Kamb's private phone records through pretexting, the practice of obtaining information by masquerading as someone else. A former HP executive accused by the company of stealing trade secrets is now saying he was instructed by the... [25 Jan 2007]
Identity theft: security threats get personal
Comment You can either create an online personality by masquerading as someone else," he said. Imagine trying to withdraw money from your bank account but the ATM doesn't recognise you because your iris scan was somehow used by someone else, five minutes ago. [13 Nov 2000]
