Friday, May 29th, 2009 Polish researchers have described a way of hiding information in retransmissions of IP-based data traffic. Transmission errors are simulated in a TCP connection to provoke retransmissions and, before packets are retransmitted, their content is replaced with data intended to be concealed.With the steganographic protocol known to both sender and receiver, ...
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Monday, May 25th, 2009 Version 1.0.8 of the Wireshark network protocol analyser has fixed a few bugs, including one that affects the processing of the PCNFSD protocol. Crafted packages can crash the PCNFSD dissector, and the developers classify this as a security vulnerability. A PCNFS server is contained in Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX, ...
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 The Wi-Fi Alliance has expanded its WPA2 certification program to include a tool for secure handoffs between Wi-Fi and 3G networks, as well as an authentication system that uses multiple secured tunnels.WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2) is the most advanced security standard for Wi-Fi. The WPA2 certification program already included ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009 A highly dangerous SSH flaw discovered a few months ago could still cause your organisation headaches, according to security experts.The vulnerability was first made public when it emerged last November that researchers at Royal Holloway's Information Security Group had found the flaw, which could allow hackers access to sensntive data.SSH, ...
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Monday, April 27th, 2009 Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords ...
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