Australia rushes its ‘dangerous’ anti-encryption bill into parliament, despite massive opposition
Australia’s controversial anti-encryption bill is one step closer to becoming law, after the two leading but sparring party political …
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Experts say it’s high time to create new cryptography for quantum computing age
A new report from the National Academies says it’ll be at least a decade before quantum computing becomes powerful enough to crack …
How to Future-Proof Your Enterprise With Quantum-Safe Cryptography
Quantum computers are poised to solve currently intractable problems for traditional technology. At some point in the next 10 or 15 years, …
Sennheiser’s flawed headphone software opened PCs and Macs to HTTPS site spoofing
Headphone maker Sennheiser has patched its software after the company admitted a serious vulnerability that made it easy for hackers to …
Signing and Verifying Ethereum Signatures
For an on-chain Ethereum transaction to be processed, it needs to be included in a block and mined. As a result, on-chain transactions take …
Instagram accidentally reveals plaintext passwords in URLs
In April, with the GDPR deadline and its requirement for data portability looming, Instagram released the long-anticipated download your …
Tech giants take seats on Homeland Security’s new supply chain task force
Homeland Security’s supply chain task force is finally off the ground.. The public-private coalition, set up earlier this year, now has …
Steganography – cool cybersecurity trick or dangerous risk? [VIDEO]
A security researcher recently figured out how to stash the complete works of Shakespeare in a single tweet, which sounds like a really …
How to fit all of Shakespeare in one tweet (and why not to do it!)
Here at Naked Security, we’ve written about steganography before. Steganography is a fascinating trick for sending secret messages – …
Headmaster fired over cryptocoin mining on the school’s dime
A headmaster in a Chinese high school in Hunan has been fired for allegedly stealing electricity to mine cryptocurrency, reports the South …
258,000 encrypted IronChat phone messages cracked by police
Police in the Netherlands announced on Tuesday that they’ve broken the encryption used on an cryptophone app called IronChat. The Dutch …
Police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app
Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted more than 258,000 messages sent using IronChat, an app billed as providing end-to-end …
Continued Fraction Cryptography
Every rational number can be expanded into a continued fraction with positive integer coefficients. And the process can be …
Security researchers have busted the encryption in several popular Crucial and Samsung SSDs
Researchers at Radboud University have found critical security flaws in several popular Crucial and Samsung solid state drives (SSDs), …
PortSmash attack steals secrets from Intel chips on the side
Researchers have developed an exploit that uses a feature in Intel chips to steal secret cryptographic keys. The proof of concept code, …
Signal rolls out a new privacy feature making it tougher to know a sender’s identity
Signal, regarded as the gold standard of end-to-end encrypted messaging apps, is rolling out a new feature that will further protect the …
New plans aim to deploy the first U.S. quantum network from Boston to Washington DC
About 800 kilometers of unused fiber optic cable running down the U.S. eastern seaboard is set to become the first stateside quantum …
Adult websites shuttered after 1.2 million user details exposed
The database behind Wife Lovers – a site dedicated to posting nudes and erotica about wives – has been breached, exposing a total of …
Slack Doesn’t Have End-to-End Encryption Because Your Boss Doesn’t Want It
End-to-end encryption—where keys are stored on individual devices by users, meaning only the intended recipients can read message …
Google using lock screen passwords to encrypt Android Cloud backups
Google’s got your back when it comes to your backups, it says – and it’s even promising to keep its own peepers off the goods. On …
Want to reduce fraud? Make a better password, dummy!
Researchers at Indiana University have confirmed that stringent password policies – aside from being really annoying – actually work. …
With Chrome 70, hundreds of popular websites are about to break
A lot of secure sites are set to grind to a halt with security error messages in the next version of Google Chrome, after the browser will …
Security Monitoring for Enterprises: Top 7 Considerations
Any organization that deals with customer data understands the importance of protecting their data. You need to inspire trust in your …
Website flaw exposed a Canadian ISP’s entire customer database
Canadian internet provider Altima Telecom has fixed a flaw in its website that could have given an attacker full access to its customer …
Finally, a fix for the encrypted web’s Achilles’ heel
The final swipe in the great whack-a-mole game of web encryption may finally have been swung. It hasn’t struck home yet but the backswing …
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 …
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 …