| Ciper Attack Cryptographers have broken the proprietary encryption used to prevent eavesdropping on more than 800 million cordless phones worldwide, demonstrating once again the risks of relying on obscure technologies to remain secure. The attack is the first to crack the cipher at the heart of the DECT, or Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications, standard, which encrypts radio signals as they travel between cordless phones in homes and businesses and corresponding base stations. A previous hack, by contrast, merely exploited weaknesses in the way the algorithm was implemented. |
World Cup PDF Threat Miscreants have booted a World Cup-themed email malware attack onto the web, taking advantage of existing material on the tournament. Booby-trapped emails are doing the rounds, posing as messages from African Safari organiser Greenlife. The emails contain an attached PDF file claiming to provide a guide to the first African edition of football's most prestigious tournament. In reality, the attachment payload takes advantage of a recently patched Adobe Reader vulnerability. |
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Google hackGoogle said the attacks targeted online critics of the mining. Vietnam has rejected accusations made by Google and McAfee that malicious software had been used to spy on tens of thousands of Vietnamese web users. |
Context
As the Internet, and the creation, storage and consumption of electronic information, increases by the day, it is important that we create an infrastructure which has high levels of security and trust. Without these the Internet will not truly scale to encapsulate every aspect of our lives, and leave threats to the future economy and to our own personal integration with it. This proposal aims to bring together knowledge from many different domains, such as from academia, industry, the public sector, and law enforcement professionals, in order to create a World-leading centre of Excellence in Security and Cybercrime. Its overall vision is to improving the lives of the people of Scotland and NI, though excellence in research, knowledge transfer, and teaching. This includes the vision to create next generation systems which protect the rights of individuals, and which also to reduce the risks of our citizens in the face of threats that they are now exposed to. The overall collaboration will thus be in the most inclusive way possible, and will allow knowledge to flow across domains. Scotland has a great opportunity in that it has strong domain experience, especially with the financial services industry and in the Scottish Police, and could support collaboration across different institutes. |
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