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This Wired story describes the recent contest created to decipher 10 increasingly difficult codes set by author Simon Singh in his international bestseller The Code Book. Quite interesting. There's also the step-by-step analysis of what the Swedish cryptographers did in their . . .
A new software-based fault injection attack, CacheWarp, can let threat actors hack into AMD SEV-protected virtual machines by targeting memory writes to escalate privileges and gain remote code execution.
Rijndael becomes the new data encryption standard beating out Schneier, IBM, and others. This DejaNews thread talks about the announcement of the winner of the new encryption standard. The Rijndael home page also provides some interesting . . .
The following text describes a security hole in the encrypted loop device for linux. Because of it, an attacker is able to modify the content of the encrypted device without being detected. This text proposes to fix the hole by authenticating the device.. . .
This issue, we have reports of FreeS/WAN running on the Sharp Zaurus (item 1) and having a few small issues with RedHat 8.0 (item 2). Claudia Schmeing has posted a new revision of our interoperation document (item 3). Item 4 has a great discussion on the use of routing protocols with FreeS/WAN.. . .
Original papers are solicited on all aspects of financial data security and digital commerce for submission to the Sixth Annual Conference on Financial Cryptography (FC '02). FC '02 brings together researchers in the financial, legal, cryptologic, and data security fields to foster cooperation and exchange of ideas.. . .
I received a phone call today from a lady with the U.S. Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) who'd read my AEScrypt page (the URL of which I'd submitted to them for an export license exemption as required by U.S. . . .
Several fake cryptography applications have appeared on Canonical's Snap Store. These web application security vulnerabilities seek to steal user funds and inflict other damaging data and network security issues. Canonical is investigating the matter, and access is restricted while investigating the risky cryptography today.
GitHub has officially rolled out its passkeys security feature for general availability, following a two-month beta testing phase. Passkeys introduce a cloud-synced authentication system using cryptographic key pairs, allowing users to access websites and applications using their screen-lock PIN, biometrics, or physical security key.
Linux 6.4 or newer paired with the latest cryptsetup development code has landed support for the OPAL specification for self-encrypting drives.
The Monti ransomware was found in June 2022 that attracted notice due to its close resemblance to the Conti ransomware, both in name and tactics, drawing attention from cybersecurity experts and organizations.
A security engineer at Linux distro maker SUSE has published an advisory for a flaw in the Mozilla VPN client for Linux that has yet to be addressed in a publicly released fix because the disclosure process went off the rails.
The Abyss Locker operation is the latest to develop a Linux encryptor to target VMware's ESXi virtual machines platform in attacks on the enterprise.
A ransomware operation known as Akira has been seen encrypting VMware ESXi virtual machines using a Linux encryptor after a couple of months of targeting Windows systems.
The Chinese threat group 'ChamelGang' infects Linux devices with a previously unknown implant named 'ChamelDoH,' allowing DNS-over-HTTPS communications with attackers' servers.
Firefox 114.0 and Firefox 102.12.0 ESR are the June 2023 releases of Mozilla's Firefox web browser. Official release date is June 6, 2023.
An analysis of the Linux variant of a new ransomware strain called BlackSuit has covered significant similarities with another ransomware family called Royal.
A new ransomware-as-service (RaaS) operation called MichaelKors has become the latest file-encrypting malware to target Linux and VMware ESXi systems as of April 2023.
Secure your documents, notes, and plaintext passwords on Linux by turning the text into a series of "moos" using Cow-encryptor.
Fedora Workstation developers and those involved at Red Hat have been working to improve the state of disk encryption on Fedora with a end-goal of possibly making the installer encrypt systems by default.
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