As attacks against cryptographic systems and the SSL infrastructure have advanced in recent years, experts have begun to fret about the future utility of the system. Companies that rely on the security of the SSL technology are beginning to take steps to address the issue, with the latest being Google, which is planning to change[...]
Dennis Fisher talks with Bruce Schneier about the effects of the Boston Marathon bombing, how the psychology of fear plays into people’s reactions to these events and what the political aftermath could be.
The streaming video service Vudu on Tuesday began resetting its customers’ passwords after thieves broke into the company’s Santa Clara, Calif. headquarters and stole a number of items, including hard drives holding customer data.
UPDATE*: The default “Wi-Fi Calling” feature on T-Mobile devices that lets milllions of Android users make phone calls over a wireless Internet connection contained a vulnerability that could have been exploited to perform man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks.
It’s been more than 25 years since Ron Rivest invented his RC4 stream cipher, and after all that time it’s still being used widely, which is something of an achievement in the crypto world. However, for more than 15 years researchers have known about a weakness in RC4 that could enable an attacker to decrypt the keystream. Now, a cryptographer has published an attack that exploits that vulnerability and causes serious problems with TLS implementations.
NZ-2013. Day 9. Route. On the ninth day in NZ we simply tramped back along the path we’d already walked along (see Day 7), so spent most of the day checking out scenery we’d already seen. On v...
Ever heard complaints about computer slowdown caused by running antiviral protection? It’s not relevant anymore, that is, if you use a modern antivirus that has been thoroughly optimized for the bes...
Cybersecurity for the next generation!
