Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
For years, hackers have focused on finding bugs in computer software that give them unauthorised access to computer systems, but now there's another way to break in: hack the microprocessor.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign demonstrated how they altered a computer chip to grant attackers back-door access to ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
While most VoIP-related vulnerabilities are posted to the VOIPSA mailing list or blog, I thought it might be useful to have a informal quarterly summary of sorts among VoIP devices per searches from NIST. I hope folks find it helpful, and of course post comments if I’ve overlooked anything from ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
A security researcher claims to have found a significant weakness in the wireless encryption of a DSL home gateway made by Thomson and distributed to broadband subscribers in the U.K. by network operator BT.
Exploiting the weakness could enable someone to connect to a victim's Wi-Fi router for malicious purposes such ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Researcher Dan Kaminsky plans to show how a web-based attack could be used to seize control of certain routers.
Kaminsky has spent the past year studying how design flaws in the way that browsers work with the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) can be abused in order to get attackers behind ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, do so now.
That's what researchers at Symantec and Indiana University are saying, after publishing the results of tests that show how attackers could take over your home router using malicious JavaScript code.
For the attack to work, the bad guys ...
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