Cloudflare wants internet route leaks to be a thing of the past
Internet outages happen all the time. If it’s not someone cutting through a cable in the street, it’s a massive denial-of-service …
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Intel releases firmware update for ME flaw
It’s only September and yet 2018 is well on its way to being remembered as the year of fixing flaws we didn’t realise were possible in …
Beginners Guide to Blockchain Technology (Part 2)
In part two of this series, we will focus on a concept called hashing. I will use the same metaphor from the previous article to explain …
Blockchain hustler beats the house with smart contract hack
A wily hacker has scored a thousand dollar cryptocurrency jackpot – 24 times – by using their own code to tamper with a smart contract …
Drive away a Tesla today (even if it isn’t yours)
Fancy driving a Tesla, but can’t convince your local dealer to let you have a go? If it’s a Model X you’re after, and you don’t …
DZone Research: The Future of Security
To gather insights on the current and future state of security, we talked to 47 executives from 43 companies about security in their own …
XAdES type signing in C++ for Windows
Using the same library, now you can sign XML data using XAdES, extension to XMLDSIG for signing XML documents. …
Knock, knock: Digital key flaw unlocks door control systems
Attackers could be able to unlock doors in office buildings, factories and other corporate buildings at will, thanks to a flaw in a popular …
‘Five Eyes’ governments call on tech giants to build encryption backdoors — or else
A pact of five nation states dedicated to a global “collect it all” surveillance mission has issued a memo calling on their governments …
Introducing the Tink cryptographic software library
Cross-posted on the Google Security Blog At Google, many product teams use cryptographic techniques to protect user data. In cryptography, …
Watchdog says 2020 Census systems are riddled with security flaws
With a census just two years away, the Census Bureau has a cybersecurity problem. That’s a key takeaway from the congressional watchdog, …
RSA Numbers and Factoring
It’s much easier to multiply numbers together than to factor them apart. That’s the basis of RSA …
What happens when hackers steal your SIM? You learn to keep your crypto offline
A year ago I felt a panic that still reverberates in me today. Hackers swapped my T-Mobile SIM card without my approval and methodically …
Password Analyst Says QAnon’s ‘Codes’ Are Consistent With Random Typing
A fringe but growing part of the American right-wing believes the Clintons, Bushes, and Obamas are all part of a wide-ranging conspiracy …
HTTP versus HTTPS – what’s all the fuss?
Every time we write about HTTP versus HTTPS there’s quite a kerfuffle, with questions and comments flying around… …Do I need it? Why …
The Bluetooth “device snooping bug” – what you need to know
“Curiouser and curiouser,” said Alice. “I wonder what all these security bulletins are for?” That was how I felt this morning, …
WhatsApp limits message forwarding in response to lynchings
Don’t allow these persons in [the] red car to escape. They are child …
The quantum meltdown of encryption
Shlomi Dolev is the Chair Professor and founder of the Computer Science department of Ben-Guiron University of the Negev. He is the author …
RIP “crypto”
This week veteran cryptographer Matt Blaze, finally gave in — to what must have been a near-constant, low-level drone of ‘CAn Buy Crypto.com???$$$$!’ spam — and sold the pithy domain name he registered in 1993, …
Serious Security: How to cut-and-paste your way to Bitcoin riches
Let’s say you wanted to vanish into the ether with a whole load of other people’s bitcoins – or, for that matter, a whole load of a …
OMG! I just received someone else’s security camera footage!
Here’s another “security surveillance system SNAFU” story, just two weeks since our last one. (As we noted back then, plain old …
“Safer hops for email” – EFF’s plan to cut down on email snooping
You’ve probably heard of Let’s Encrypt, not least because we’ve written about it many times on Naked Security. Let’s Encrypt is a …
The girls who used WhatsApp to learn under the noses of IS
It’s a constant drumbeat, and it goes like this: “Give us a backdoor to slip past encryption. We won’t break anything. It will be secure. Access will only be granted with probable cause and warrants.” …
Cryptography is the Bombe: Britain’s Enigma-cracker on display in new home
The UK National Museum of Computing will open its new Bombe gallery this weekend at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes after a successful …
The $99 digital padlock that kept crooks out… for 2 whole seconds
Imagine if you could walk up to your bicycle, unlock it within two seconds, and ride off without grubbing in your pocket for keys, without …
Apple lifts two-month ban on Telegram updates in iOS store
Russia’s official ban of Telegram has spread, CEO Pavel Durov tweeted on Thursday, saying that Apple had been blocking updates to the …
A Look at Java Cryptography
Java Cryptographic Architecture (JCA) has been designed to allow for the creation of protocols such as encryption, hashing, cryptography, …
Symmetric JCE Cryptography in Mule 4
Here, we are going to validate changes/enhancements made to the security module in Mule 4. Let’s look at JCE …
Symmetric XML Cryptography in Mule 4
There are major changes introduced in the security module in Mule 4. Here, we are going to validate changes/enhancements made to the …
FBI admits to inflating number of crime-related devices it can’t crack
Investigators can’t get into 7,775 devices, FBI Director Christopher Wray repeatedly claimed in 2017, using the scary statistic to argue …