If Unshredder proves to be effctive it will, no dubt, soon become a staple of investigators and general snoopers everywhere.
Monday 3 August 2009
How to unshred a document
For the first time a software package is publicly available that is designed to rebuild shredded documents.
Skype - spy vs spy and how the uncrackable service may be dismantled
Skype is currently very hard to intercept and decrypt. This has been a frustration for many security services.
It now appears that the ongoing dispute between Skype's founders may lead to eBay (current owners) redesigning the core technology (due to the IP dispute).
Any reworking of the code will be very welcome news for security services who apparently can't easily decrypt and/or intercept the current version.
Conspiracy stories... please form an orderly queue.
Clampi - the biggest Trojan virus yet?
It is being reported that Clampi may be the biggest and most effective Trojan type virus yet seen.
Thousands of the worlds top businesses have been targeted for deployment and attack.
Joe Stewart (Director of Malware Research with SecureWorks.) has been researching Clampi for 2 years. He said "We weren't all that worried about Storm, and we weren't all that worried about Conficker, this one you need to worry about."
iPhone SMS vulnerability patched in less than 24hrs
In a positive example of exploit exposure Apple have patched the SMS vulnerability (announced at the Defcon conference last week).
Within 24hrs an update was available to fix the problem.
Now when will Apple fix the far larger security vulnerability plaguing the iPhone (in contradiction to their marketing for the current version that supposedly had 'enterprise level' security).
Do you believe everything you read - was MI5's website really hacked?
Last week the Daily Express reported that the MI5 website was hacked and visitor data was stolen. This story seemed a little far fetched and indeed was not very accurate at all.
It turns out that a technical vulnerability was pointed out and duly fixed. The concept that MI5 would keep confidential data at the front-end of their public website should have seemed a bit unlikely, even for the Express.
I wonder when they will print the correction....
Hollywood comes true..again - VideoJak demos hacking and spoofing IP video feeds including cctv and video conferencing
A new tool shown at the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas last week has the ability to both intercept Internet video feeds and eject false 'looped' images.
This is another example of Hollywood coming true the attacker can hack, monitor and record a CCTV feed (when nothing is happening), then play this back in a loop to hide the actual live feed (presumably while Tom Cruise is lowered down on a black rope).
This tool also provides the ability to intercept video conferencing.
NB - if you are using any kind of conferencing facility you should be working on the basis that the information can be intercepted. Many of us rely on IP streamed video systems, do you know if your system is still secure? If you need help with securing your business communications contact FaberBrent.
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