IT-Security-Links #41

• HITB2013KUL: The Security Conference ‘Hack in the Box‘ took place this week. Slides of the talks are available here.
• Malware “Dexter”: Infected point-of-sale terminals in South African restaurants costs banks millions.
• Bring your own Shadow IT: How people avoid the “clunky” network their organisation offers.
• Insecurities of /dev/random: A security analysis (PDF) of Linux’ pseudo-random number generator.
• Can we trust ‘NSA-proof’ TrueCrypt? Security researchers are raising funds to conduct an independent audit of TrueCrypt, the popular disk encryption utility.
• NSA collects millions of address books: According to a newly disclosed presentation, the NSA collects contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world.
• Windows XP support ends April 2014! After this date customers will no longer receive new security updates.

German:

• Wie sicher sind Computersysteme von Schweizer Firmen? Die First Security Technology AG scannte Schweizer IP-Adressen und hat daraus einen Swiss Vulnerability Report erstellt. Kritik dazu gibt’s auch.