“Privacy is not for sale,” says Telegram founder
Following the April 2017 suicide bombing on the St. Petersburg metro that killed 16 people, Russia threatened to block …
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Diversity and inclusion, data privacy and security ops will be on everyone’s mind at RSA
Monzy Merza Contributor Monzy Merza is the chief security evangelist at Splunk. More posts by this contributor The four cybersecurity terms …
How to Get the Most Out of the RSA Conference 2018
On April 16–20, the security industry will once again convene in downtown San Francisco for the annual RSA conference. For those of you …
Push for legal mandate to unlock phones revived by DOJ
Officials from the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have been meeting with security researchers, working out how to get around …
IBM Developing World’s Tiniest Computer Smaller than a Grain of Salt
At Thank 2018, IBM has announced developing world’s tiniest computer that will cost less than ten cents to manufacture and can monitor, analyze, communicate, and even act on data. …
Quantum Computing and Cryptography: What You Need to Know
Large-scale quantum computers are not here yet, but quantum computing is one of today’s hottest research fields in the technology world. …
FBI: we don’t want a backdoor; we just want you to break encryption
“We’re not looking for a ‘back door’” that breaks encryption, the FBI said on Wednesday. Don’t even know what that is, really, …
Cryptography Changes in Android P
Posted by Adam Vartanian, Software Engineer We hope you’re enjoying the first developer preview of Android P. We wanted to specifically …
How Random is TPM Random Generator in Windows10 Laptop?
Download project – 3.4 KB Download report – 1.7 KB Introduction Now a days, most of the systems servers, laptops and mobiles include TPM …
Crypto Harlem Is Teaching Digital Security to the Over-Surveilled Black Community
Every month for the past five years, Harlem residents have gathered to discuss digital privacy and how to best protect themselves from …
US border agents haven’t verified e-passport data for over 10 years
E-passports – high-tech passports with chips to store traveler information and cryptographic hashes to verify that the passports …
Coindesk 2018 State of Blockchain
For the past four years CoinDesk, a news, events and research company focused on blockchain, has compiled a State of Blockchain report. …
This Game Teaches the History of Cryptography
It started simple. I woke up in a white …
SaaS Platform for Managing Configurations Enters Private Beta
Config is a new SaaS offering for managing configuration files. Created by Bien David in 2017, the company looks to simplify how teams …
Article: How Cryptocurrencies are Changing the IT Industry
Blockchain has not only become the core mechanism of many cryptocurrencies, it has called a wider attention because its potential for use …
Blockchain and Smart Contracts in a Business Process
Buying something through an internet portal, for example something as expensive as a car, normally involves two parties who don’t trust …
Cop buys mobile spyware, says he can’t remember why
FlexiSpy: it’s a nasty little piece of …
Famous cryptographers’ tombstone cryptogram decrypted
This article was inspired by Elonka Dunin’s Schmoocon 2018 presentation about this fascinating topic. Dunin’s original paper, Cipher on …
Bitcoin conference won’t let you pay with Bitcoin
Sure, as of Thursday, you could still get a last-minute ticket to attend next week’s North American Bitcoin Conference, to be held in …
Why Enabling SHA256 Support for XML Signatures Breaks JWT Signing
For some time, there have been bug reports to Kentor.AuthServices, IdentityServer3, and System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt about enabling …
SSL/TLS Certificate Revocation is Broken Time for More Reliable Revocation Checking Mechanism
We are moving fast to the encrypted world and the usage of TLS certificates increased dramatically.Security researcher Scott Helme …
Holiday Fun #3: It’s (never) too late to learn long multiplication!
So far this week we’ve looked at Question 1 and Question 2 in our holiday-fun suggestions for technodiversions you might like: Install a …
Here’s What is Limiting Blockchain Mainstream Use
In a recent article on Medium, Blockchain engineer Preethi Kasireddy describes the key challenges that Blockchain has to overcome to become …
Electronic Signature Using The WebCrypto API
Sometimes we need to let users sign something electronically. Often people understand that as placing your handwritten signature on the …
Twitter adds support for app-based two-factor authentication
Twitter is rolling out an update to its platform security that will allow users to employ third-part authentication apps to receive a …
Cryptography Vulnerability Known as ROBOT Re-Emerges
Security researchers disclosed a vulnerability dubbed ROBOT on Dec. 12 that is based on an encryption risk that was first disclosed in …
NiceHash cryptomining exchange hacked; everything’s gone
NiceHash buyers and miners, change your passwords immediately if you haven’t already been ransacked: the cryptomining exchange that …
US gov says it can break your encryption without a court order
Remember all that drama over encryption, with the FBI wrestling in court with Apple over its inability to access an iPhone belonging to one …
What Is a Digital Signature?
Digital signatures are at the heart of many of the applications and technologies we use on a daily basis, including Bitcoin and, Secure …
“Crypto” Is Being Redefined as Cryptocurrencies
“Crypto” Is Being Redefined as Cryptocurrencies I agree with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, “Cryptocurrencies aren’t …