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Flaws in Windows operating system
St Petersburg News.Net
Monday 19th November, 2007
Serious flaws in Microsoft's Windows operating systems have been found by Israeli computer scientists.
The flaw allows for the tracking of all text typed into computers with Windows operating systems, including emails, passwords and credit card numbers.
The security loophole allows criminals to access information on personal computers through the random number generator in Windows.
Any text correspondence which requires a password, such as a bank, invokes a random number generator to create a random encryption key.
The Israeli research team have found a way to decipher how the random number generator works, consequently giving them the ability to eavesdrop on private communications through the Internet.
The researchers said that they have already notified Microsoft's security response team about their discovery.  Email this story to a friend
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~galljdaj+
11-20-07, 06:35 PM |
Flaws in Windows operating system
Its clear the US Government has been doing this for sometime(long). Its also clear microsoft knew and used the process themselves!
What is nice about the ISRAELIS, they have made the information available to the public. Their are some here tha have poo pooed my comments on this subject over the past year and a half.
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waltky
01-11-08, 03:22 PM |
Watch out for Windows virus...
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Warning on stealthy Windows virus
Friday, 11 January 2008, The creators of the virus are after bank logins and personal data
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Security experts are warning about a stealthy Windows virus that steals login details for online bank accounts. In the last month, the malicious program has racked up about 5,000 victims - most of whom are in Europe.
Many are falling victim via booby-trapped websites that use vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s browser to install the attack code. Experts say the virus is dangerous because it buries itself deep inside Windows to avoid detection.
Old tricks
The malicious program is a type of virus known as a rootkit and it tries to overwrite part of a computer’s hard drive called the Master Boot Record (MBR). This is where a computer looks when it is switched on for information about the operating system it will be running.
“If you can control the MBR, you can control the operating system and therefore the computer it resides on," wrote Elia Florio on security company Symantec’s blog. Mr Florio pointed out that many viruses dating from the days before Windows used the Master Boot Record to get a grip on a computer.
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waltky
01-21-08, 03:27 AM |
Got `em!...
:cool:
Gang stealing money from U.S. bank accounts busted in Bulgaria
Jan. 20, 2008 — A gang suspected of having siphoned off 4 million U.S. dollars from credit cards and bank accounts of U.S. citizens, has been busted in Bulgaria, police said on Sunday.
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The head of the gang, Issa Ahmed, a 26-year-old ethnic Turk, was arrested alongside two accomplices in a raid carried out jointly by Bulgarian police and the U.S. Secret Service, Dimiter Dimitrov, Police Director of the Black Sea port of Varna told reporters. Evidence has proven the siphoning of 400,000 dollars, but they are suspected of having netted 10 times of the sum, he said.
The criminal gang included four people managing operations in the United States and another 10 active in Bulgaria, he said. They registered a detective bureau in the United States to gain in-depth knowledge and access to the database of institutions and banks, he added.
An employee of the Varna Service for Combating Organized Crime was also found involved in laundering of the stolen money, according to local reports. The police said the gang started operation at the beginning of 2006 by stealing an average of 20 dollars from each of the hundreds of accounts.
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