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Security researchers should stop publishing vulnerabilities in the traditional way because cyber-criminals are using the code to generate zero-day exploits at record speeds, says a recent report. One technologist wants the public to understand why releasing exploit code for a dangerous vulnerability is sometimes the right thing to do. Quantum cryptography, the most secure method of transmitting data, has taken a step closer to mainstream viability with a technique that simplifies the distribution of keys.. Domains in Hong Kong, China and the Philippines have been named as the most potentially dangerous on the web.
Security researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) have discovered a utility that served as the foundation for a series of attacks that compromised thousands of websites and infected millions of users' PCs over the past several months. Researchers have successfully cracked the security of the Oyster card used for fare payments on buses and tubes in London. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have warned that chip and Pin machines are not as secure as the banking industry claims. A new tool makes it easier for malware spreaders to create bogus YouTube pages. A Swedish security company announced Wednesday that two of its researchers have discovered a 'generic' flaw in the TCP stack that could result in denial-of-service attacks. VoIPshield Laboratories has alerted companies that market voice over IP systems of new security vulnerabilities. Researchers have detected active exploits using rogue banner advertisements to target a recently patched vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat. Warning that botnets are a "dynamic, evolving threat," researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have proposed the classification of botnet structures to provide an effective response framework for attacks and general remediation. Security researchers have developed a way to turn a utility for Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system into a rootkit-like, reverse engineering tool that can be deployed to quickly locate application vulnerabilities and create exploits. A group of Israeli researchers claims to have discovered a serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows 2000 operating system.. Researchers last week revealed an unpatched buffer overflow bug in Windows that could allow an attacker to take control of an affected machine.
A newly released Open Source security program claims to have the potential to put antivirus software companies out of business. Researchers have developed a browser security system that protects against the recently-revealed DNS vulnerability and other Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks. Targeted phishing emails are attempting to infect the machines of users' who are tricked into opening malicious Microsoft Access Database (MDB) files, US-CERT (United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team) said in a warning this week. Silent but deadly attacks on four major sites have been revealed by researchers Ed Felten and Bill Zeller at Princeton University. The number of computers currently controlled by botnets has exploded in recent months, say researchers.