Best of the Week - 10 giugno 2012

Here we are again with the best security resources of the week. This week I've chosen some articles on: cryptography issues related to Flame, DDOS, DNSSEC and Cyber conflicts.

Hope you enjoy my selection!

Mikko Hypponen ‏@mikko "We now have an example where the government has undermined a crucial part of computer security": http://blog.agilebits.com/2012/06/07/flames-and-collisions/ #flame #1password

MD5 collision attacks are truly novel, this tells us a lot about who worked on Flame and how important it is http://www.cwi.nl/news/2012/cwi-cryptanalist-discovers-new-cryptographic-attack-variant-in-flame-spy-malware

Mikko Hypponen ‏@mikko Tons of good info on the PKI problems that lead to Flame's 'Holy Grail' hack in: http://rmhrisk.wpengine.com By @rmhrisk, who used to work at MSFT.

Prof Alan Woodward ‏@ProfWoodward Nice explanation of the DoS tool that runs on a *single* PC but can bring an Apache web server to its knees http://ddos.arbornetworks.com/2012/06/mp-ddoser-a-rapidly-improving-ddos-threat/

CyLab ‏@cylab Latest CyLab Tech Report: Sanctuary Trail - Refuge from Internet DDoS Entrapment Available Now! http://shar.es/qVKPx #cybersecurity

NLnet Labs ‏@NLnetLabs Our Annual Report 2011 is available: http://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/publications/annualreports/annualreport

CCD COE ‏@ccdcoe Day 3 summary of #cycon is now up http://www.ccdcoe.org/cycon/521.html - and also a summary of the event http://ccdcoe.org/cycon/522.html