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RSS spoofTrojan bank fraud gang sentenced
News Once users of PCs infected with the Trojan logged into genuine online bank accounts, the Trojan would insert a spoof banking webpage into their session, asking for personal and financial details. Four men have been... [17 Nov 2009]
Hackers target fake ads to steal IDs
News They spoof the email addresses, even get good references for their credit and run a car ad. Instead of hacking into major online sites to embed malware, malicious hackers are going in through the front door by exploiting... [16 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.08.09
Round-Up The bank has scored a box office smash by using spoof movie posters and other tricks to promote the importance of security to its 140,000 staff. When T.S. Eliot wrote "April is the cruellest month" he had clearly never... [07 Aug 2009]
Photos: Barclays turns to Hollywood to sell security
Photo Shown here is the poster for the sci-fi spoof called The Invaders of Space. This is a promotional poster for the action thriller spoof Access: Denied. Think of a great premise for a Hollywood blockbuster... [03 Aug 2009]
Web security warnings being ignored - even by the most tech-savvy
News To spoof a phishing site, the researchers removed these certificate authorities from the trusted authorities list in each of the browsers used in the study, which were iterations of Firefox 2, Firefox 3 and Internet... [28 Jul 2009]
A Link Signature Based DDoS Attacker Tracing Algorithm Under IPv6
White Paper To some special attacks, especially DDoS attacks, IPSec appears relatively weak, because IPSec can only defend against DDoS attacks that spoof their source addresses. The ipv6 security architecture, IPSec, plays a... [01 Jul 2009]
Chip and PIN for ID cards: Not such a sharp idea?
News Using a PIN number to prove identity online and access government services risked fraudsters setting up spoof public service sites to steal PINs and personal details, in the same way criminals set up fake banking sites... [15 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.04.09
Round-Up Another among the most notable was The Guardian, which had a spoof story announcing it would become the first newspaper in the world to be published exclusively via Twitter, described it as "radically democratised news... [03 Apr 2009]
ROPE: Robust Position Estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper They show that ROPE bounds the ability of an attacker to spoof sensors' locations, with relatively low density deployment of reference points. This paper addresses the problem of secure location determination, known as... [03 Apr 2009]
eBay: Let us look inside your PC
News This year will also see eBay introduce Trustyear, technology aimed at fighting spoof eBay sites that steal users' logins or financial details. The technology will look for any attempts to redirect users from eBay onto a... [23 Feb 2009]
Software EV SSL: The next weapon against malware?
News The technology that protects consumers from spoof websites could be unleashed as the next weapon in the fight against malware. Security company Verisign is looking at creating a system to certify software is what it... [13 Nov 2008]
A Framework for Classifying Denial of Service Attacks
White Paper Although headers are easily forged, the paper shows that characteristics of attack ramp-up and attack spectrum are more difficult to spoof. Launching a Denial of Service (DoS) attack is trivial, but detection and... [14 Oct 2008]
A Cryptanalysis of the High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection System
White Paper With the master secret, an attacker can eavesdrop on communications between any two devices and can spoof any device, both in real time. This paper describes a weakness in the High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection... [08 Jul 2008]
Protecting Your Core: Infrastructure Protection Access Control Lists
White Paper At the same time, the ACLs permit routine transit traffic to flow uninterrupted and provide basic RFC 1918, RFC 3330, and anti-spoof filtering. In an effort to protect routers from various risks both accidental and... [13 Jun 2008]
Photos: £1,000 reward for PM's fingerprints
Photo The spoof posters, seen here, offer the reward for anyone who can lawfully obtain the fingerprints of either Gordon Brown or Jacqui Smith. Wild West-style wanted posters will offer a £1,000 reward for anyone capturing... [07 Apr 2008]
