What would the perfect phishing attack from a social engineering perspective? The one that compared to using typosquatted domains impersonating the bank’s web application directory structure is in fact using the bank’s legitimate domain names as redirectors due to XSS flaws within. It’s even more interesting to measure the average time it takes for a [...]
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If you use Tor for anonymity/privacy on the Web, you might want to pay attention to this critical security announcement from project leader Roger Dingledine.
According to the advisory, a known vulnerability in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution’s OpenSSL package could allow an attacker to figure out private keys generated by these buggy versions of the OpenSSL [...]
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Dutch security researchers rode the London Underground free for a day after easily using an ordinary laptop to clone the “smartcards” commuters use to pay fares, a hack that highlights a serious security flaw because similar cards provide access to thousands of government offices, hospitals and schools. [Read More...]
Source: Wired
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