the general term for software that is designed to damage disable or steal data is network investigative technique.
the general term for software that is designed to damage disable or steal data is?
network investigative technique
when the public key is fake, the attacker gets no plaintext from the trojan. a spoofing attack is possible in which some trojans are released that use real public keys and steal data and some trojans are released that use fake public keys and do not steal data. many months after the trojans are discovered and analyzed, the attacker anonymously posts the witnesses of non-encryption for the fake public keys. this proves that those trojans never in fact exfiltrated data. this casts doubt on the true nature of future strains of malware that contain such "public keys", since the keys could be real or fake. this attack implies a fundamental limitation on proving data theft.
cryptovirology
the heartbleed bug is a serious vulnerability specific to the implementation of ssl/tls in the popular openssl cryptographic software library, affecting versions 1.0.1 to 1.0.1f. this weakness, reported in april 2014, allows attackers to steal private keys from servers that should normally be protected. the heartbleed bug allows anyone on the internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the openssl software. this compromises the secret private keys associated with the public certificates used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. this allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users. the vulnerability is caused by a buffer over-read bug in the openssl software, rather than a defect in the ssl or tls protocol specification.
transport layer security