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'Evil Maid' USB stick attack keylogs TrueCrypt passphrases
Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has released a PoC (proof of concept) of a keylogger that is capable of logging TrueCrypt's disk encryption passphrase enabling the attacker to successfully decrypt the hard drive's content. Dubbed, the evil maid' attack due to its plug-and-exploit' functionality requiring 1-2 minutes for the infection process to the take place, works with [...]

Security researcher Joanna Rutkowska has released a PoC (proof of concept) of a keylogger that is capable of logging TrueCrypt’s disk encryption passphrase enabling the attacker to successfully decrypt the hard drive’s content. Dubbed, the ‘evil maid’ attack due to its ‘plug-and-exploit’ functionality requiring 1-2 minutes for the infection process to the take place, works with [...]


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Written on Monday, 19 October 2009 05:32 by GSO

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