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Source: Tech News World - Posted by Anthony Pell
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A hacker claims he's used Amazon's cloud services to bust open SHA-1, a wireless network security standard, and he says he'll be demonstrating his process at an upcoming Black Hat get-together. Malicious hackers could quickly set up brute-force attack systems using the cloud, but critics say real-world password cracks might not come so easily. |
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Source: The Register UK - Posted by Alex
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Federal restrictions will be relaxed on the export of open-source software that incorporates strong encryption, the US government announced on Friday in a lengthy disclosure. The effect of the changes announced in the US Federal Register is that cryptography software now may be exported to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Sudan as long as the source code from which it was derived is already “publicly available”. |
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Source: Information Week - Posted by Alex
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Use of the Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) specifications for securing domain names increased by 340% from 2009 to 2010. Even so, only 0.02% of Internet zones are now being signed with DNSSEC, and 23% of those are using expired signatures. |
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Source: CNET - Posted by Alex
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Google has begun shipping a feature called False Start in its Chrome browser to speed up secure communications. False Start essentially cuts out one set of the back-and-forth conversation needed to set up a secure channel between a Web browser and Web pages. |
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Source: cellular-news - Posted by Alex
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Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is introducing a new microSD card to prevent cell phone tapping. The Mobile Security Card VE 2.0 contains a cryptocontroller which encrypts cell phone conversations and securely authenticates the user. The microSD card was developed by Giesecke & Devrient Secure Flash Solutions (G&D SFS), a joint venture of G&D and Phison Electronics. |
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Source: Harald Welte - Posted by Alex
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Recently, I wanted to investigate when and how A5/2 has been withdrawn from both GSM networks and GSM phones alike. Unfortunately there was no existing article discussing this history online, so I went through dozens of meeting reports and other documents that I could find online to recover what had happened. |
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Source: v3 - Posted by Alex
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Red Hat security team rates the vulnerability 'important'. The OpenSSL server has now been patched to fix a critical flaw which could be used to remotely execute code or cause an application to crash.
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Source: Web Security Journal - Posted by Alex
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Calling it a "nuclear-powered bulldozer", yesterday, Amazon announced and blogged about its newest cloud infrastructure service, the "Cluster GPU Instance", which delivers supercomputer calculation power for as little as $2.10 per hour. The new instance type employs the same NVIDIA Tesla processor used in three of the five fastest supercomputers. |
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Source: Dark Reading - Posted by Alex
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New Ponemon Institute study commissioned by Symantec finds 84 percent of U.S. organizations either deploying encryption or in the process of doing so. Most U.S. organizations are currently encrypting data or are in the process of doing so, and the No. 1 driver for this is compliance. |
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Source: Gizmag - Posted by Alex
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Quantum cryptography has been around since the 1980's but up until now only very small packets of information have been able to be encrypted at one time. Now a breakthrough that identifies the angle and rotation of photon particles is taking this technology to the next level. |
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