Neowin News Feed for: Keys

Adobe's product security team publishes private PGP key online

Boyd Chan — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 02:14:01 +0000

A member of Adobe's security incident response team accidentally posted the private PGP key for its email account to a blog. Although removed, there are potential implications for the blunder. Read more...

Microsoft accidentally has YouTube videos pulled with stolen product keys in the comments

Brad Sams — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:06:01 +0000

Microsoft, in an attempt to have comments deleted from YouTube that contained stolen Windows keys, has accidentally caused a mass removal of Windows videos from the video sharing platform. Read more...

Twitter's secret auth keys exposed, allows for token circumvention

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:15:00 +0000

Twitter's secret authentication keys, which are used in their official apps to avoid token limits, have been exposed on github, meaning third-party developers can avoid restrictions and spoof apps Read more...

Use your butt as a car key

Christopher White — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:41:55 +0000

A research organization in Tokyo has invented a scanner that reads the driver's backside and refuses to start the car if it doesn't match the butt of the owner. Will the technology sweep the world? Read more...

Windows Mobile 6.5 brings improved Soft Keys

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:57:17 +0000

We earlier saw some leaked screenshots of Windows Mobile 6.5 build 21159 which showed some changes in the user interface. One such improvement was that of the Windows Media Player This seems... Read more...

Linux under attack: compromised SSH keys lead to rootkit

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:59:40 +0000

The U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) has issued a warning for what it calls "active attacks" against Linux-based computing infrastructures using compromised SSH keys. The attack appears to initially use stolen SSH keys to... Read more...

Debian and Ubuntu flaw leaves private SSL/SSH keys guessable

Tue, 13 May 2008 22:00:47 +0000

The Debian Security Advisory posted up DSA-1571-1 openssl -- predictable random number generator issue today and strongly advised its users to take steps to avoid possible compromising of any systems running on Debian, such as... Read more...

UK Police Can Now Demand Encryption Keys

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:27:53 +0000

People in the UK who encrypt their data are now obliged by law to give up the encryption keys to law enforcement officials who request it, under part of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act... Read more...

HD players hand over DVD keys

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:53:30 +0000

A consortium backing the encryption system for high-definition DVDs has confirmed hackers have stolen "title keys" and used them to decrypt high-definition discs. Both the title keys and a number of decrypted films have been... Read more...

Microsoft runs out of Vista product keys

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:23:12 +0000

A small hitch has cropped up in Microsoft's beta-testing program for Vista: the software giant has temporarily run out of product keys for testers. The following update was posted on the password-protected Microsoft Connect website,... Read more...

2 Year Old Pirated Keys Defeats WGA

Steven Parker — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:08:36 +0000

On July 18, Microsoft's WGA team promised to send me a disk with a product key from their blocked list. It was supposed to arrive via overnight service, but it was never sent. After several... Read more...

ET, PunkBuster & Missing CD Keys

Michael Stanclift — Mon, 02 Jun 2003 03:17:04 +0000

Even Balance Inc. have updated their PunkBuster Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory news with information on "Empty CDKey" messages. Players who are getting "Empty CDKey" messages trying to connect to PunkBuster ET Servers may attempt... Read more...

Hot Keys permissions bypass under XP

Tue, 18 Dec 2001 12:51:03 +0000

Many thanks must go to New Order for the heads up on this vunerability. A flaw in XP's hot keys could allow non-administrative users to execute Administrator owned applications which are... Read more...

Active Keys 1.0 Beta 5

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 11 Oct 2001 14:00:19 +0000

Active Keys is a tool for creating and managing keyboard shortcuts (hotkeys). It allows to perform a lot of actions with a single keystroke. Using system wide hotkeys you can control CD Audio, Winamp, Windows... Read more...