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Johns Hopkins team cracks iMessage photo, video encryption
/in Mobile SecurityA Johns Hopkins team has decrypted iMessage photos by guessing character-by-character the key used to encrypt it, and Apple plans to release a new iOS version today that will fix the flaw.
Upgrading to iOS 9.3 should fix the problem for users of the operating system and iMessage, says Matthew Green, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins who led a team of grad students that broke the encryption, according to a story in the Washington Post.
The story says he discovered a flaw in the encryption last fall and told Apple about it, but when months went by and nothing was done to patch it, he turned his team loose. Here’s how the Post describes the attack:
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Credit card breach that hit Jimmy John’s is larger than originally thought
/in Computer SecuritySignature Systems says the breach of its point-of-sales system that hit 216 Jimmy John’s sandwich shops is actually 50 percent larger than originally thought.
The company said Friday that an additional 108 restaurants that use its payment terminals were also hit. The additional locations are independent restaurants not part of the Jimmy John’s chain.
The breach is thought to have begun on June 16 when someone began gaining access to the terminals through a user name and password that are normally used to remotely manage the devices. Companies like Signature Systems use remote management so they don’t have to send a technician to each store, saving time and money but also opening the devices up to just the sort of attack that happened.
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