Der Spiegel wrote an article on efforts by the NSA and GCHQ (their British equivalent) to crack encryption of various sorts. Take the article at what it is worth; it is based on documents that Snowden released, so it is a little bit old. I apologize that this post is pretty long, but there is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: After a 9 hour outage, North Korea has reappeared on the Internet. Most folks are saying this does not look like the work of the NSA but rather the work of a hacker, but of course, who knows. Multiple sources are reporting that all 4 of North Korea’s Internet connections are totally down. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Minnesota judge has ruled that Target was negligent in the 2013 hack on their point of sale system according to infosecurity-magazine. Now while this is far from the last word on this issue and it will likely be appealed after the trials, it is important. For a judge to say that Target WAS NEGLIGENT […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am going to name 2014 as the Year Of The Crypto Bug. Does it seem to you that this year or so has revealed more than it’s share of cryptography oopsies? It does to me. So I started looking at what was found this year. In some sense, this is good news, but in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes not using best practices gets us. Other times it is fatal. Check out this article about an admin who had his (or her) entire universe fall down around his/her ankles. The article shows how, in this case, not following best practices was more than a little inconvenient. The admin was reading his email, apparently […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a presentation at the SysScan 360 security conference, Anti Virus software and other security products have security flaws just like every other piece of software on the planet. To some of us, that does not come as a big surprise. The researcher, Joxean Koret, tested a number of security products and found issues with […]
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