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 		May 31st - PXC SENTINEL
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Next-Gen Keys Susceptible to Djinn
By AMBER MAI-WAN

A secret report leaked to the Sentinel by a source at Centrifuge indicates that the next-generation key hardware unveiled with great pomp last week is not immune to Djinn-style attacks; in fact, the keys are more susceptible.

"It's like the Djinn designer knew exactly how our tech would develop," marveled analyst Cora Llewellyn, of independent technology consulting firm TechNow, after the Sentinel showed her the report. "If this report is accurate, then the virus' creator was about five steps ahead of the bleeding edge."

According to the report, the original Djinn, which was never fully reverse-engineered, used a particular vulnerability in modern key hardware, called Magic Lamp, to infiltrate and attack. But previously unknown components of Djinn also include code to attack next-generation keys in which the old Magic Lamp vulnerability has been closed.


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Llewellyn explained: "The designer knew exactly how the first-wave Djinn worked and how it could be prevented. But the worm appears to have been written with those preventative measures in mind; it makes some very smart guesses about how we'd try to fix it, and what new vulnerabilities this would uncover as development progressed." The report estimates that, by exploiting this new flaw, this virus can cause the same amount of damage as the first Djinn, but in about a fifth the time frame.

Centrifuge denied that the report was accurate, but indicated that it has delayed the launch of its much-anticipated Key Extension series due to manufacturing hangups.

The Djinn worm swept through the Academy and some other large city institutions last year, causing data and productivity losses of up to PCL750m.


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