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31 December 2008

heise online news 31/12/2008


heise online news 31/12/2008
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25C3: MD5 collisions crack CA certificate

Researchers have created a rogue CA certificate using a combination of MD5 collision attacks and weaknesses in CA certificate issuing. The technique could allow for "practically undetectable phishing attacks"

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25C3: Serious security vulnerabilities in DECT wireless telephony

Simple hardware is all that's required to eavesdrop on DECT telephone calls

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25C3: More light shed on "denial of service" vulnerabilities in TCP

Reports of the vulnerability to DoS attacks of the fundamental internet protocol have been going the rounds since the autumn. At the 25C3 hacker congress in Berlin a security expert presented credible scenarios and tips for dealing with the problem

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25C3: Reliable exploits for Cisco routers

At the CCC Congress, Felix "FX" Lindner of Phenoelit gave the first public presentation of a technique for reliably exploiting buffer overflows in Cisco routers

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Microsoft refutes Media Player vulnerability

Microsoft refute the report of a vulnerability in Windows Media Player, saying there was no chance of code execution and that it had already found the bug

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