Nigel Stanley - Blog Archive for January (2010)
There were 4 blog postings during January (2010):
DDOS without the D. Are we doomed then?
I was recently sent a link by my friend Steve Gold highlighting the work of a hacker who goes by the name Jester. Apparently this hacker has found a way of initiating a DDOS attack without relying on a distributed network of systems. Instead he uses...
Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 18th January '10
ICO Grows some Teeth
After years of being an enforcement also-ran the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is finally going to get some teeth to deal with those that contravene data protection principles—see the details here.With the government now in agreement...
Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 19th January '10
Common passwords 123456 and qwerty finally exposed
A report by database security firm Imperva has highlighted the most common consumer passwords. The study was based on an analysis of 32 million passwords exposed in the recent Rockyou.com breach.The report can be downloaded here - no registration...
Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 22nd January '10
Cracking a 768-bit RSA key
As computing power has increased, the available horsepower to brute force crack RSA algorithms has grown as well. The most recent announcement, in December 2009, was that a group of mathematicians, computer scientists and cryptographers had managed...
Nigel Stanley, Bloor Research | 19th January '10
