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22 Jul 2015

Microsoft to spoofed Skype users

An unknown number of frustrated Skype customers have been pestered by spoof messages on the Microsoft service for weeks, but the company is yet to close what appears to be a gaping hole in its software.

Instead, Redmond has advised Skype users to change their account passwords. But complaints are building up about the lack of communication coming out of the Microsoft camp regarding what seems to be a Skype security flaw.

The problem first appeared late last month. One Skype user, posting in a thread that now runs to 22 pages long, said: "I received a message earlier today from a friend on my contact list whom I don't normally have Skype conversations with. The link resolves to a Russian/.ru site so I immediately knew I had been duped and closed the window before the page loaded."

Other users were quick to pile in with similar gripes about the service, while some folk moaned that their PCs had been offline when the spoofing attack occurred. Skype's support team said earlier this month that an investigation into the issue was "ongoing". But it clearly hasn't been fixed yet, given the level of grumbling over on micro-blabbing site Twitter.

In the meantime, here's the official word from Microsoft: "Our engineers are still looking into this. Meanwhile we'd recommend everyone to change their account passwords for all your Skype related accounts, i.e. also update your Microsoft account password if you linked that to your Skype account."

OUR POINT
In the context of network security, a spoofing attack is a situation in which one person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data and thereby gaining an illegitimate advantage.There are two groups of people with contrary goals: protective walls builders and new ammunition inventors. In the 21st century, defenders-builders create obstacles to hackers-destroyers in the digital space. Unfortunately, this confrontation will last forever without any winners.

What about data protection issues? Professional developers originally create extra barriers to provide users with security. Of course, brilliant attackes can hack even these systems. The decryption will take dozens of years and the price will be so high that that the attack has no sense. How harmful can one (1!) line, decrypted in 28 years after the message was written be? What's more, hackers will need 28 more years to decrypt chat, because every message in the chat is encrypted in a new way.

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Source:
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Axarhöfði 14,
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Iceland - 2015