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Tag Archives: Cryptography
New Server-Side Ransomware Hitting Hospitals
Hackers are escalating recent attacks against hospitals with new stains of server-side ransomware whose most recent variants are dubbed SamSam and Maktub.
Apple Patches Serious iMessage Crypto Flaws
Johns Hopkins University researchers disclosed crypto vulnerabilities in iOS that put iMessage security at risk to advanced attackers.
How to Steal Secret Encryption Keys from Android and iOS SmartPhones
Unlike desktops, your mobile devices carry all sorts of information from your personal emails to your sensitive financial details. And due to this, the hackers have shifted their interest to the mobile platform.
Every week new exploits are discovered for iOS and Android platform, most of the times separately, but the recently discovered exploit targets both Android as well as iOS devices.
Turing Award — Inventors of Modern Cryptography Win $1 Million Cash Prize
And the Winners of this year’s Turing Award are: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman.
The former chief security officer at Sun Microsystems Whitfield Diffie and the professor at Stanford University Martin E. Hellman won the 2015 ACM Turing Award, which is frequently described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”.
Turing Award named after Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician and computer
DROWN Flaw Exposes 33 Percent Of HTTPS Connections To Attack
The latest Internet-wide crypto vulnerability has arrived in DROWN, which can be abused by attackers to carry out man-in-the-middle attacks and decrypt traffic.
IRS Warns Tax-Related Phishing, Malware Surging
The IRS warns businesses and consumers about a significant increase in tax-related phishing and malware attacks.
Joomla Sites Join WordPress As TeslaCrypt Ransomware Target
Joomla is the newest prey of attackers behind a campaign that has targeted WordPress websites by injecting JavaScript files with malicious code.
Threatpost News Wrap, February 19, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news, including the iPhone encryption debacle, the glibc Linux vulnerability, and the latest ransomware headlines.
ENCRYPT Act of 2016 — Proposed Bill Restricts States to Ban Encryption
The last year’s ISIS-linked terror attacks in Paris and California has sparked debate on Encryption, and the intelligent agencies started reviving their efforts to weaken encryption on various encrypted products and services.
But, there is some Good News!
California Congressman and Texas Republican are now challenging state-level proposals to restrict US citizens’ ability to encrypt
