German industrial giant Siemens has provided a firmware update addressing software vulnerabilities that are found in a popular line of its Desigo PX industrial control hardware.
Tag Archives: Cryptography
Congressional Group Says Encryption Backdoors Are a Bad Idea
Members of the bipartisan encryption working group released a year-end report concluding that encryption backdoor laws would do more harm than good.
NIST Calls Development of Quantum-Proof Encryption Algorithms
Quantum Computers – Boon or Bane?
Quantum computers can perform operations much more quickly and efficiently even with the use of less energy than conventional computers, but that’s bad news for encryption — a process which scrambles data according to a massively complex mathematical code.
In theory, quantum computers can break almost all the existing encryption algorithms used on the
Threatpost News Wrap, December 8, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest Linux bug, Sony closing backdoors in cameras, and Google’s new open source fuzzer.
Cryptography: How something nerdy went mainstream
Cryptography is one of the fundamental aspects of information security. We look at it through the lens of the silver screen.
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New Cerber Variant Leverages Tor2Web Proxies, Google Redirects
Researchers have discovered that criminals behind the latest Cerber ransomware variant are leveraging Google redirects and Tor2Web proxies in a new and novel way to evade detection.
Microsoft Cutting Off SHA-1 Support in February for Edge, IE 11
Microsoft confirmed Feb. 14, 2017 is the cutoff date for SHA-1 support in its Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 browsers.
Google Removing SHA-1 Support in Chrome 56
Google released its final SHA-1 deprecation deadlines, and crypto services provider Venafi said that 35 percent of the web is still running weak SHA-1 certificates.
Cryptsetup Vulnerability Grants Root Shell Access on Some Linux Systems
A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems.
TrickBot Banking Trojan Adds New Browser Manipulation Tools
The banking Trojan TrickBot is evolving fast, according to researchers, and within weeks will expand its victim list and attack scope.