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Ang Cui. The Columbia University PhD candidate The link for this article located at ThreatPost is no longer available. . An Ivy League aspirant emphasizes the importance of enhancing embedded system security protocols. Discover further insights into VoIP vulnerabilities.. VoIP Security, Firmware Risks, Cyber Research. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Researchers at Google and the Georgia Institute of Technology are studying a virtually undetectable form of attack that quietly controls where victims go on the Internet. The study, set to be published in February, takes a close look at "open recursive" DNS servers, which are used to tell computers how to find each other on the Internet by translating domain names like google.com into numerical Internet Protocol addresses. Criminals are using these servers in combination with new attack techniques to develop a new generation of phishing attacks. What is so new about the possible attacks on DNS servers? We all know they are very vulnerable to attack because they are so visible and important to the Internet. The link for this article located at PC World is no longer available. . The link for this article located at PC World is no longer available.. researchers, google, georgia, institute, technology, studying, virtually, undetectable. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has demonstrated several methods that sophisticated rootkits can use to hide from even the most reliable detection method currently available - hardware-based products that read a system's RAM. . Rutkowska is a researcher with security firm Coseinc Advanced Malware Labs. She recently outlined several ways of getting around the User Account Control (UAC) feature introduced in Windows Vista. Several researchers have identified problems with UAC. The link for this article located at Techworld is no longer available. . Rutkowska is a researcher with security firm Coseinc Advanced Malware Labs. She recently outlined se. security, researcher, joanna, rutkowska, demonstrated, methods, sophisticated, rootkits. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Following reports that bin Laden hides messages in images on the Web, a study has found no evidence that steganography has caught on. A study of more than two million images downloaded from eBay auctions appears to show little . . . . Following reports that bin Laden hides messages in images on the Web, a study has found no evidence that steganography has caught on. A study of more than two million images downloaded from eBay auctions appears to show little evidence that terrorists -- or indeed anybody else -- is using the images to hide encoded messages. The study, by Niels Provos and Peter Honeyman at the University of Michigan, was carried out in response to reports that terrorists are using steganography to hide their communications in images on Internet sites such as Amazon and eBay. The researchers analysed the images to look for evidence of a type of encryption called steganography, which refers to the practice of hiding the existence of a message. If an image on eBay did have a message encoded into it, it would be indistinguishable to the casual observer from the original image. The weakness of such systems, say the researchers, is that they rely on the secrecy of the encoding system. The link for this article located at ZDNet UK is no longer available. . Following reports that bin Laden hides messages in images on the Web, a study has found no evidence . reports, laden, hides, messages, images, study, found, evidence. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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