Carnegie Mellon denies FBI payment for Tor-cracking technique
No, we did not sell Tor users out to the FBI for $ 1 million, Carnegie Mellon (more or less) has said.
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New mobile-malware detection technique uses gestures
Mobile malware is a growing problem, but researchers from University of Alabama at Birmingham have figured out a new way of detecting when shady mobile apps get up to no good, such as trying to call premium-rate numbers unbeknowst to a phone’s owner.
The technique relies on using the phone’s motion, position and ambient sensors to learn the gestures that users typically make when they initiate phone calls, take pictures or use the phone’s NFC reader to scan credit cards.
Some mobile malware programs already abuse these services and security researchers expect their number will only increase.
The technology developed by the UAB researchers can monitor those three services and can check whether attempts to access them are accompanied by the natural gestures users are expected to make. If they’re not, they were likely initiated by malware.
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New technique allows attackers to hide stealthy Android malware in images
A new technique that allows attackers to hide encrypted malicious Android applications inside images could be used to evade detection by antivirus products and possibly Google Play’s own malware scanner.
The attack was developed by Axelle Apvrille, a researcher at Fortinet, and reverse engineer Ange Albertini, who presented their proof-of-concept at the Black Hat Europe security conference in Amsterdam Thursday.
It’s based on a technique devised by Albertini dubbed AngeCryption that allows controlling both the input and the output of a file encryption operation using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) by taking advantage of the properties of some file formats that allow files to remain valid despite having junk data appended to them.
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Cyberwarfare Is a Safer Technique for War – Berkeley High Jacket
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Cyberwarfare Is a Safer Technique for War
Berkeley High Jacket Currently, the newest advancement made is the creation of cyberwarfare. Richard A. Clarke, a U.S. government security expert, wrote a book titled Cyber War. In his book, he described cyberwarfare as “actions by a nation–state to penetrate another … |