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There has been a lot of news about Belgian cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater having his computer hacked, and whether the NSA or GCHQ is to blame. There have been a lot of assumptions and hyperbole, mostly related to the GCHQ attack against the Belgian telecom operator Belgacom.. I'm skeptical. Not about the attack, but about the NSA's or GCHQ's involvement. I don't think there's a lot of operational value in most academic cryptographic research, and Quisquater wasn't involved in practical cryptanalysis of operational ciphers. I wouldn't put it past a less-clued nation-state to spy on academic cryptographers, but it's likelier this is a more conventional criminal attack. But who knows? Weirder things have happened. The link for this article located at Schneier on Security is no longer available. . Doubt surrounding the role of either the NSA or GCHQ in the breach of Belgian cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater's system.. Belgian Cryptographer,Cybersecurity Threats,State-Sponsored Espionage. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Students of iconoclastic computer scientist Daniel Bernstein have found some 44 security flaws in various Unix applications, according to a list of advisories posted online. The flaws, which range from minor slipups in rarely used applications to more serious vulnerabilities in software that ships with most versions of the Linux operating system, were found as part of Bernstein's graduate level course at the University of Illinois at Chicago. . The advisories regarding the flaws were dated Wednesday and can be found on the Web site of student James Longstreet. Bernstein, a professor of computer science at the university, did not immediately respond to inquiries about the vulnerabilities. The link for this article located at ZDNet India is no longer available. . The advisories regarding the flaws were dated Wednesday and can be found on the Web site of student . students, iconoclastic, computer, scientist, daniel, bernstein, found, security, flaws. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
A team of academics asked a federal court Wednesday for permission to publicly reveal how they cracked an anti-piracy technology backed by the music industry. Princeton University researchers headed by professor Edward Felten filed the challenge in order to present their . . . . A team of academics asked a federal court Wednesday for permission to publicly reveal how they cracked an anti-piracy technology backed by the music industry. Princeton University researchers headed by professor Edward Felten filed the challenge in order to present their findings at a computer security conference in August. Felten had originally planned to present a paper disclosing how his team defeated a digital-music antipiracy measure at another conference in April, but bowed out after the recording industry threatened a lawsuit. The link for this article located at Reuters is no longer available. . Legal proceedings uncover efforts by researchers to share results regarding breakthroughs in bypassing digital rights management in music.. Anti-Piracy Technology, Digital Security, Academic Research, Legal Challenges. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
The academic cracker crew led by Princeton University Computer Science Professor Edward Felten, which answered the HackSDMI public challenge of last September with 'unqualified' results, has received veiled threats of criminal prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) from the SDMI Foundation in hopes that the team will be cowed into withholding what it's learned from an upcoming computer science conference.. . .. The academic cracker crew led by Princeton University Computer Science Professor Edward Felten, which answered the HackSDMI public challenge of last September with 'unqualified' results, has received veiled threats of criminal prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) from the SDMI Foundation in hopes that the team will be cowed into withholding what it's learned from an upcoming computer science conference. "Any disclosure of information gained from participating in the Public Challenge....could subject you and your research team to actions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act," SDMI Foundation mouthpiece Matthew Oppenheim warns in a letter to the Felten team. The link for this article located at The Register is no longer available. . Yale's scholarly think tank faces legal pressure under DMCA for disclosing vital CMRI investigation results.. Research Integrity, Digital Threats, SDMI Crackers, Academic Ethics. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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