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Forging Australian Driver’s Licenses
The New South Wales digital driver’s license has multiple implementation flaws that allow for easy forgeries. This file is encrypted using AES-256-CBC encryption combined with Base64 encoding. A 4-digit application PIN (which ...
Java Cryptography Implementation Mistake Allows Digital-Signature Forgeries
Interesting implementation mistake: The vulnerability, which Oracle patched on Tuesday, affects the company’s implementation of the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm in Java versions 15 and above. ECDSA is an algorithm that ...
Hackers Using Fake Police Data Requests against Tech Companies
Brian Krebs has a detailed post about hackers using fake police data requests to trick companies into handing over data. Virtually all major technology companies serving large numbers of users online have ...
Why Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged
My proof of COVID-19 vaccination is recorded on an easy-to-forge paper card. With little trouble, I could print a blank form, fill it out, and snap a photo. Small imperfections wouldn’t pose ...
How can we prevent sophisticated document fraud in 2021?
Document fraud such as forgery is becoming more sophisticated every year. We discuss how to stay ahead of scammers ...
New SHA-1 Attack
There's a new, practical, collision attack against SHA-1: In this paper, we report the first practical implementation of this attack, and its impact on real-world security with a PGP/GnuPG impersonation attack. We ...
