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security advisory vulnerability GNOME is officially shortening its standard vulnerability disclosure window from 90 days to 30 days, a change that impacts upstream maintainers, downstream Linux distributions, and system administrators in how they handle software vulnerabilities. The policy shift, announced by long-time security coordinator Michael Catanzaro , addresses modern software patching realities and a growing influx of automated submissions. . Because GNOME is the default desktop environment on several major Linux...
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security advisory moderate For organizations that run a self-hosted Git platform, it’s no longer just about hosting static code repositories. Today, Git servers are responsible for deployment pipelines, API tokens, SSH keys, package repositories, and the automation scripts that push code directly. Confirm that the upgrade addresses known vulnerabilities but also provides production environments. . That makes them trusted systems within the development environment and attractive targets for attackers looking to move...
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data privacy automation Every system admin has lived through the same Monday morning ritual. A queue of forty tickets, half of them password resets, permission errors, or disk space warnings that any experienced technician could resolve in under two minutes. The other half require actual judgment. For years, automation promised that software would eventually sort the two apart on its own. That promise is now being tested in production Linux environments. . Early results are reshaping how IT teams think about tier-1...
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data collection automation You're running a web scraping project to collect pricing data from e-commerce sites. You set up a pool of datacenter proxies, launch your scripts, and within minutes — banned . CAPTCHAs everywhere. Your data pipeline stops before it really begins. . It's a frustrating scenario that plays out daily in ad verification, market research, and multi-account management. The website doesn't know you're doing legitimate research or monitoring. It just sees traffic coming from IP ranges it recognizes as...
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security advisory social engineering Business Email Compromise used to be a numbers game — mass-blasted emails, broken English, an obvious "URGENT WIRE TRANSFER" subject line. That era is over. Generative AI has turned BEC into a tailored, low-noise operation that mimics writing style, voice, and even video presence. This piece looks at what's actually changed under the hood, what defenders are testing in response, and why so many organizations are still structurally unprepared for it. . The Infrastructure Problem Nobody Wants to...
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data protectionquantum encryptionquantum key distributionMagiQ Technologies Launches Navajo: Secure Quantum Key Distribution Network
Start-up MagiQ Technologies, from Somerville, Massachusetts, has released the first commercial implementation of quantum cryptography, the much-heralded solution to the perfect encryption cipher. Theoretically, encryption ciphers created using quantum physics are unbreakable. . . . Start-up MagiQ Technologies, from Somerville, Massachusetts, has released the first commercial implementation of quantum cryptography, the much-heralded solution to the perfect encryption cipher. Theoretically, encryption ciphers created using quantum physics are unbreakable . While MagiQ Technologies' product, Navajo, isn't itself a quantum device it uses one of the fundamental tenets of quantum theory: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, to create a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) network. Werner Heisenberg first published his theory in 1927, stating that the more precisely the position of is known, the less precisely the momentum is known. This succinct statement addresses the uncertain relationship between the position and the momentum (mass times velocity) of a subatomic particle, such as an electron, and has profound impact on the development of future information systems. MagiQ's Navajo creates encryption keys that change up to 1,000 times a second to prevent eavesdroppers from deciphering the transmitted data packets. The keys are transmitted over a secure fiber optic link in a stream of polarized photons. If an eavesdropper (or other transmission failure) interrupt the flow of polarized photons, the data is immediately altered, and the encryption system can detect the change. Heisenberg's uncertainty principle comes into play in that even if the eavesdropper only looks at one of the polarized photons, the data stream will be changed, and the intrusion detected. Navajo works with off-the-shelf encryption ciphers, such as the U.S. Government-supported AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). While AES is very secure, the combination of AES and Navajo is theoretically absolutely secure: unbreakable. . Start-up MagiQ Technologies,from Somerville, Massachusetts, has released the first commercial imple. start-up, magiq, technologies, somerville, massachusetts, released, first, commercial, imple. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 12, 2024
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data securitycryptographyquantum encryptionExploring Quantum Encryption for Secure Messaging Against Cyber Threats
No matter how complex they are, most secret codes turn out to be breakable. Producing the ultimate secure code may require encoding a secret message inside the quantum relationship between atoms, scientists say. . Now cryptographers have taken "quantum encryption" a step further by showing how a secret message can remain secure even if the system is compromised by a malicious hacker. Artur Ekert, director of the Center for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore, presented the new findings here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The link for this article located at LiveScience is no longer available. . Now cryptographers have taken 'quantum encryption' a step further by showing how a secret message ca. matter, complex, secret, codes, breakable, producing, ultimate. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 22, 2012
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security measuressecurity researchcryptographyToshiba Research Breakthrough in Quantum Key Distribution Security
A loophole in quantum cryptography that could allow a hacker to determine a secret key transmitted using the technology has been closed by new research. Working at Toshiba Research Europe in Cambridge, scientists found that laser diodes used to transmit keys used to encrypt data, known as Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), sometimes transmitted more than one photon at a time. Quantum encryption works by transmitting key data as a stream of single photons. . Should an eavesdropper try to intercept the transmission, monitoring a single photon would change the state of that photon, and this would make both ends of the transmission aware that the data had been eavesdropped. However, the laser diodes can sometimes transmit more than one photon and so a hacker could monitor the second photon, leaving the first photon unchanged and this would not alert anyone that the key transmission had been compromised. The link for this article located at PCpro is no longer available. . Should an eavesdropper try to intercept the transmission, monitoring a single photon would change th. loophole, quantum, cryptography, allow, hacker, determine, secret, transmitted. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 21, 2007
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quantum encryptionsecure transmissionkey exchange184.6 Km Transmission: Quantum Key Breaks Previous Record
A encrypted quantum key has been transmitted over a distance of 184.6 km, which is 50% further than the previous record of 122 km. The work was done by researchers in the US, based at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado (New Journal of Physics 8 193). The previous record of 122 km was set by researchers at Toshiba . This information is sent in the form of photons and an eavesdropper. This information is sent in the form of photons and an eavesdropper. encrypted, quantum, transmitted, distance, which, further. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 04, 2006
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data securityquantum encryptionoptical fiberRecord Speed Quantum Encryption Over Optical Fiber Networks
Raw code for "unbreakable" encryption, based on the principles of quantum physics, has been generated at record speed over optical fiber at the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. The work, reported today at the SPIE Defense & Security Symposium in Orlando, Fla.,* is a step toward using conventional high-speed networks such as broadband Internet and local-area networks to transmit ultra-secure video for applications such as surveillance. . The link for this article located at Physorg.com is no longer available. . The link for this article located at Physorg.com is no longer available.. 'unbreakable', encryption, based, principles, quantum, physics, generate. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 19, 2006
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security technologyquantum encryptionquantum networkingUnhackable Networks: Photon Technology Breakthroughs in Quantum Security
Scientists have moved one step closer to the "unhackable" network by developing a device that can send single photons in a regular stream over a fiber optic link. . Quantum key exchange takes advantage of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which states that it is impossible to measure a quantum particle without changing its state. Any attempt to intercept a message such as an encryption key will result in a detectable change, allowing the sender and receiver to verify the secrecy of the exchange. But even this may not be completely secure, because of possible flaws in the transmission. "Attenuated lasers sometimes produce more than one photon at a time and the problem there is someone can split off one of those photons without disturbing the other," said Dr Andrew Shields, head of the Quantum Information Group of Toshiba Research Europe. A new technique, pioneered by researchers at Toshiba Research Europe in Cambridge, England, is based on a tiny device called a "quantum dot", a very small semi-conductor made of indium arsenide. It measures just 45 nanometers in radius and 10nm in height. The link for this article located at SC Magazine is no longer available. . Quantum key exchange takes advantage of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, which states that it i. scientists, moved, closer, 'unhackable', network, developing, device. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 26, 2005
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network securitydata protectionquantum encryptionExploring Quantum Encryption For Enhanced Data Security
It's a hacker's nightmare but a dream for bankers and spies: A computer network so secure that even the simplest attempts to eavesdrop will interrupt the flow of data and alert administrators to the snooping . . .. It's a hacker's nightmare but a dream for bankers and spies: A computer network so secure that even the simplest attempts to eavesdrop will interrupt the flow of data and alert administrators to the snooping. The work by researchers at Harvard University, Boston University and BBN Technologies is the closest scientists have come to a real-world quantum encryption system that uses light particles called photons to lock and unlock information instead of random-number "keys." Using the technology, the scientists can swap data, send e-mail and visit one another's websites as their data is protected. Researchers are still exploring its practical applications, but some say it could one day replace the encryption now used for most secure Internet traffic, and shield financial or government communications. "It is really a futuristic technology," said Harvard project scientist John M. Myers. "Its applications are going to be a lot like the laser and the transistor, in that early people could not think of all the possible applications and uses of it." Quantum cryptography depends on a defining discovery in physics: that subatomic particles can exist in multiple states at once until something interacts with them. Thus, even observing photons used in quantum encryption changes them, ruining the codes. The link for this article located at globetechnology.com is no longer available. . Delve into the innovative quantum cryptography framework designed to safeguard communication infrastructures from vulnerabilities, as well as its prospective uses across various industries.. Quantum Encryption, Data Protection, Cybersecurity Innovations. . Anthony Pell
Sep 15, 2004
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security innovationquantum encryptionsecure communicationsHarvard's Innovative Quantum Network Prevents Unauthorized Access
Relying on the principles of uncertainty underlying quantum mechanics, Harvard researchers recently established the first experimental secure network that, when perfected, should make it impossible for hackers to gain unauthorized access to documents shared electronically. . . .. Relying on the principles of uncertainty underlying quantum mechanics, Harvard researchers recently established the first experimental secure network that, when perfected, should make it impossible for hackers to gain unauthorized access to documents shared electronically. The system, called a quantum network, could not be intercepted without alerting the intended recipient of an electronic message, project researcher John M. Myers said. McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Professor of Physics Tai T. Wu, the head of the Harvard lab experimenting with the quantum code key system, was on vacation and could not be reached for comment. The link for this article located at Harvard Crimson is no longer available. . Relying on the principles of uncertainty underlying quantum mechanics, Harvard researchers recently . relying, principles, uncertainty, underlying, quantum, mechanics, harvard, researchers, recently. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 16, 2004
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