Decoys fix quantum key swapping
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British researchers find a way to close a potential flaw in quantum communication systems.
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In a twist, security researchers have discovered a group of hackers who are exploiting a new category of victims -- aspiring Internet scammers.A Moroccan group called &quot;Mr. Brain&quot; is offering free phishing kits on a Web site hosted in France, said Paul Mutton, Internet services developer at Netcraft, a security company in Bath, England.The software packages make it easy to quickly set up a fraudulent Web site mimicking a known brand in order to trick people into divulging credit card details or bank account numbers. Templates for spam e-mail are also included, targeting brands such as Bank of America, eBay, PayPal, and HSBC.Mr. Brain&#39;s Web site lists the kits and what kind of details each one is capable of collecting, such as usernames, passwords or Social Security numbers. Netcraft posted screenshots on its Web site.But what the aspiring scammer doesn&#39;t know is that the phishing kits are designed to send any sensitive information that&#39;s collected back to e-mail accounts controlled by Mr. Brain, Mutton said.&quot;Obviously, that&#39;s why they are offering this stuff for free,&quot; Mutton said. &quot;I was impressed by it.&quot;Mr. Brain hides the special e-mail function in a blend of PHP scripts, one of which is encrypted, Mutton said. Just in case someone decrypts it, Mr. Brain has written at the top of the file &quot;Don&#39;t need to change anything here. Created by Mr. Brain Morocco Team.&quot;The scheme seems to be targeted at new phishers, Mutton said. Mr. Brain benefits since other wannabe scammers shoulder the cost and risk of finding an ISP (Internet Service Provider) to host the phishing site, Mutton said.&quot;Essentially, they&#39;re exploiting all these novice phishers -- basically getting them to do all the hard work,&quot; Mutton said.It&#39;s difficult to tell without further research how many of the free phishing kits linked with this latest scam are live on the Internet, but Mutton said Netcraft noticed one earlier this month targeting Bank of America.&quot;Clearly, these are actively being used in phishing attacks,&quot; Mutton said.
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Exploit code for two of Tuesday's patches have been posted to mailing lists by researchers.
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10.3.7 fixes bugs, fills security holes
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A new scheme allows individual electrons to serve as the quantum bits that store and process computer information.
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Simple, cheap encryption method uses natural thermal noise to foil eavesdroppers.
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Weakness in open-source GnuPG cryptography technology could let miscreants tamper with digitally signed, "secure" messages.
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Blog: Low ransom request and a self-termination date on the code suggest this is a test attack.
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Hacker claims to have discovered cryptographic key that can circumvent copy restrictions on HD DVD and Blu-ray movies.
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Encryption circles are buzzing with news that mathematical functions embedded in common security applications have previously unknown weaknesses.
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This article shows how to improve SSH security using public key authentication instead of, or in addition to, password authentication.
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EMC, NetApp lurk in their corners Tape survivor Quantum today ramped up its efforts in disk storage with the release of kit aimed at the primed market for de-duplication.â¦
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A reconfigurable handheld device could foster a community of hardware hackers.
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EMC's goal is to be able to encrypt storage array data "on the fly" and without slowing down the input or adding cost.
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InfoWorld - The Mozilla Foundation has published a fix for a &quot;critical&quot; JavaScript vulnerability in the Firefox browser and the SeaMonkey application suite.
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Rare, out-of-cycle Windows patch fixes one flaw, but attacks through other known, yet-to-be-plugged holes continue.
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Secondary IPS site in shared credentials snafu Digital certificate glitches have affected the operation of a secondary website used for UK passport applications.â¦