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Comment The question remains (Score 1) 60

by Creon04 on Saturday December 18, 2010 @05:53PM (#34602520) Attached to: Raising a Botnet In Captivity

"It was [...] something of a challenge to convince the owner of a cluster worth around $1 million that installing malware onto it was a good idea." The question remains: is he referring to Waledac or Windows xp?

Periodic Table of Elements To Get an Update 99

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 18, 2010 @02:36PM from the elementally-my-dear-watson dept.

Lazarian writes "Scientists from around the world have put forth an update to the Periodic Table of Elements. In particular, they are changing the manner in which atomic weights of ten elements are expressed. From the article: 'For example, sulfur is commonly known to have a standard atomic weight of 32.065. However, its actual atomic weight can be anywhere between 32.059 and 32.076, depending on where the element is found.'"

The Clock Is Ticking On Encryption 228

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 18, 2010 @09:14AM from the promise-that-keeps-on-giving dept.

CWmike writes "In the indictment that led to the expulsion of ten Russian spies from the US in the summer of 2010, the FBI said that it gained access to their communications after surreptitiously entering one of the spies' homes, during which agents found a piece of paper with a 27-character password. The FBI had found it more productive to burglarize a house than to crack a 216-bit code, despite having the computational resources of the US government behind it, writes Lamont Wood. That's because modern cryptography, when used correctly, is rock solid. Cracking an encrypted message can require time frames that dwarf the age of the universe. That's the case today. 'The entire commercial world runs off the assumption that encryption is rock solid and is not breakable,' says Joe Moorcones, vice president of information security firm SafeNet. But within the foreseeable future, cracking those same codes could become trivial, thanks to quantum computing."

Turning Attackers' Tools Against Them 75

Posted by kdawson on Saturday June 19, 2010 @08:19PM from the back-bearings dept.

Tasha26 writes "The BBC has an interesting Web security snippet from the SyScan 2010 security conference in Singapore. In a presentation, security researcher Laurent Oudot released details of bugs found in commonly used attack kits such as Neon, Eleonore, and Sniper. These loopholes could be exploited to get more information about the attackers, perhaps identifying them, stealing their tools and methods, or even following the trail back to their own computer."

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