Daily Archives: March 13, 2009

Subverting SSL with SSLstrip

Posted on March 13, 2009 by erielt

At the recent Black Hat security conference, independent hacker Moxie Marlinspike gave a speech about his new tool sslstrip and the techniques that it uses to subvert SSL on a network (a write up can be found at http://www.itpro.co.uk/609932/website-danger-as-hacker-breaks-ssl-encryption and … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Air Force Engineers develop BitTorrent sniffer

Posted on March 13, 2009 by ezwelty

Original article: http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2009/02/airforce-engineers-develop-bittorrent-sniffer.ars The Air Force Institute of Technology has a new method for passive BitTorrent tracking. The system attempts to read the header of BitTorrent packets, and compare the hash in the packet to a known set of bad … Continue reading →

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Security Review: iTunes DAAP Authentication

Posted on March 13, 2009 by justine

I am, at the moment of writing this, sitting in Cafe Solstice on the Ave. There are probably about a dozen computers in here, and judging from my neighbor’s screen, 4 of them are running iTunes with the “sharing” feature … Continue reading →

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Security Review – Google Voice

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Tim Crossley

Product Page: http://www.google.com/voice/about Recently, Google has rolled out another product designed to change the way people use existing technologies. This time, it’s called Google Voice, a replacement/advancement of an existing technology called GrandCentral. Google Voice aims to centralize phone calls … Continue reading →

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Democratized DDoS attacks

Posted on March 13, 2009 by mrd5

Distributed Denial of Service attacks are becoming less the tool of centralized attackers Continue reading →

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Security Review: Cell Phone Projectors

Posted on March 13, 2009 by hmu2

Authors: Heather Underwood & Guy Bordelon As mobile phones continue to become one of the most popular, universal, and comprehensive computing devices, researchers and mobile phone companies are enthralled with adding more features. As described in a recent article by … Continue reading →

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Face Recognition System: Clever or Creepy?

Posted on March 13, 2009 by devynp

Photo programs that could organize, recognize, and cluster people’s photos are neat because it allows the user to search for pictures. The face recognition technology has also been used to identify people. The way the system works is that the … Continue reading →

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Current Event: Google’s new behavioral based ads v.s. Privacy

Posted on March 13, 2009 by alexmeng

Recently, Google released a new way for it to perform interest-based advertising to its users. It utilizes its users’ behavior to send them targeted ads. The question that arises is how do they obtain the users’ behavior? Google saves previous … Continue reading →

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The BBC Borrows a Botnet

Posted on March 13, 2009 by bensona

In an effort to make the public aware of the threat of botnets, the BBC comes very close to violating the UK’s Computer Misuse Act.  The BCC technology program Click acquired a botnet of about 22,000 computers and used them … Continue reading →

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Security Review – BitTorrent

Posted on March 13, 2009 by jonfung

Summary BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer communications protocol that has risen in popularity very rapidly.  It is a file-distribution protocol that facilitates transferring large files between peers.  In order to download a certain set of files, a user would typically find … Continue reading →

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