Digital Privacy in IoT: Exploring Challenges, Approaches and Open Issues

Privacy has always been a critical issue in the digital era, particularly with the increasing use of Internet of Things IoT devices. As the IoT continues to transform industries such as healthcare, smart cities, and home automation, it has also introduced serious challenges regarding the security...

StrongPity APT Covets Secrets of Crypto Users

APT groups covet secrets, and one in particular has chosen to target users intent on protecting theirs. The group is known as StrongPity, and it’s been a characteristic APT outfit using its share of zero days and modular attack tools to infiltrate victims and conduct espionage. This summer,...

SSH Encryption and Connection Process

SSH Encryption and Connection Process Introduction SSH, or secure shell, is a secure protocol and the most common way of safely administering remote servers. Using a number of encryption technologies, SSH provides a mechanism for establishing a cryptographically secured connection between two...

Passive Security Community Turned Activist

Security people like to call themselves a community, but until June some might say its greatest community achievement is turning Twitter into its own private and contentious echo chamber. But since the Snowden leaks, there’s been a palpable change and a marked swell in stand-taking. Tweeters have...

Encryption: It's Complicated

Data breaches have become so common at this point that the mere fact that a government agency such as the South Carolina Department of Revenue loses several million Social Security numbers and credit card numbers isn’t really that noteworthy. It’s another day in the life of the Internet. But what...