Martin Thomson, a Principle Engineer at Mozilla confirmed TLS 1.3 will be turned on by default in Firefox 52.
Tag Archives: Cryptography
Locky Ransomware Learns New Evasive Tricks
Microsoft malware researchers say Locky ransomware authors are changing tactics again to evade detection.
Crack for Charity — GCHQ launches 'Puzzle Book' Challenge for Cryptographers
The UK’s Signals Intelligence and Cyber Security agency GCHQ has launched its first ever puzzle book, challenging researchers and cryptographers to crack codes for charity.
Dubbed “The GCHQ Puzzle Book,” the book features more than 140 pages of codes, puzzles, and challenges created by expert code breakers at the British intelligence agency.
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Ranging from easy to complex, the
Gary McGraw on BSIMM7 and Secure Software Development
Mike Mimoso talks to Cigital CTO and software security pioneer Gary McGraw about the latest results pulled from the Building Security In Maturity Model (BSIMM).
Researchers Demonstrated How NSA Broke Trillions of Encrypted Connections
In the year 2014, we came to know about the NSA’s ability to break Trillions of encrypted connections by exploiting common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm – thanks to classified documents leaked by ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden.
At that time, computer scientists and senior cryptographers had presented the most plausible theory: Only a few prime numbers were
Cisco Warns of Critical Flaws in Nexus Switches
Networking giant Cisco issued five security bulletins this week with two critical bugs allowing remote execute code.
Cloud, IoT Big Factors in Annual BSIMM 7 Report
In Cigital’s seventh annual Building Security in Maturity Model report, cloud, agile software development and IoT factor into maturing secure software movement.
Mozilla Reduces Threat of Export-Grade Crypto to Firefox
The Firefox browser will now deny TLS connections to servers using weak Diffie-Hellman keys.
Congressional Leaders Demand Answers on Yahoo Breach
A number of Democratic Congressional leaders wrote Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer a letter seeking answers about the breach of 500 million customer records.
Sofacy APT Targeting OS X Machines with Komplex Trojan
APT gang Sofacy is targeting Mac OS X users with a Trojan that allows an attacker to execute remote commands on infected systems.