Researcher Tells How to Hack Image Backups
Bitmaps stored inside encrypted backup files could be vulnerable to a sophisticated ‘comparison’ attack, a German security researcher has discovered.
In a new paper, Bernd Roellgen of Munich-based encryption outfit PMC Ciphers, explains how it is possible to compare an encrypted backup image file made with almost any commercial encryption program or algorithm to an original that has subsequently changed so that small but telling quantities of data ‘leaks’.
PC World - Researcher Tells How to Hack Image Backups
admin @ October 5, 2008
