Cryptography Cracking the Adventure Time Cipher 2 Aug 20162 Aug 2016 I recently read “Adventure Time: Volume 1″, a comic book based on the smart animated series of the same name. In the comic, I found some odd looking messages at…
Cryptography Ransomware master decryption key released 24 May 201624 May 2016 TeslaCrypt's master key has been released to the public, shutting down the ransomware for good in an unexpected twist in the malware's story. TeslaCrypt, which often targets gamers, lands on…
Cryptography Global Crypto Wars 4 Mar 20164 Mar 2016 American politicians, media, and the public may be focused on the ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI over encryption in the iPhone, but the so-called Crypto Wars are far…
Cryptography MD5 function torpedoes crypto protections in HTTPS and IPSEC 9 Jan 201622 Feb 2017 If you thought MD5 was banished from HTTPS encryption, you'd be wrong. It turns out the fatally weak cryptographic hash function, along with its only slightly stronger SHA1 cousin, are…
Cryptography Dutch Government Embraces Encryption, Denounces Backdoors 6 Jan 201622 Feb 2017 While the “Going Dark” debate over encryption standards rages on here in the United States, government officials in the Netherlands this week released a statement that actually calls for stronger…
Cryptography… Moves to rein in ‘dark’ networks 7 Dec 201522 Feb 2017 A key House lawmaker is pushing a new initiative to deal with the proliferation of encrypted technologies that critics say allow terrorists to communicate without detection. The effort from House…
Cryptography… The attack that broke the Dark Web 2 Dec 201522 Feb 2017 Law enforcement has been complaining for years about the Web “going dark,” saying that encryption and privacy tools are frustrating their ability to track criminals online. But massive FBI operations…
Cryptography Researchers poke hole in custom crypto built for AWS 1 Dec 201522 Feb 2017 Underscoring just how hard it is to design secure cryptographic software, academic researchers recently uncovered a potentially serious weakness in an early version of the code library protecting Amazon Web…
Cryptography… Online security braces for quantum revolution 9 Sep 201522 Feb 2017 It is an inevitability that cryptographers dread: the arrival of powerful quantum computers that can break the security of the Internet. Although these devices are thought to be a…
