The Semiconductor Industry and Regulatory Compliance

Earlier this week, the Trump administration narrowed export controls on advanced semiconductors ahead of US-China trade negotiations. The administration is increasingly relying on export licenses to allow American semiconductor firms to sell their products to Chinese customers, while keeping the...

CDF - Crypto Differential Fuzzing

CDF is a tool to automatically test the correctness and security of cryptographic software. CDF can detect implementation errors, compliance failures, side-channel leaks, and so on. CDF implements a combination of unit tests with "differential fuzzing", an approach that compares the behavior of...

Average Cost of Breach Goes Down, For the First Time Ever

NEW YORK–The global average cost of a data breach last year dropped 11.4 percent from 2015 to $3.6 million. The reduction is attributed mostly to a strong U.S. dollar, with wins also offset by a 1.8 percent increase in the size of breaches in 2016. The numbers come from Peter Allor, senior cyber...