Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Has Quantum Encryption Policy

At least one presidential candidate has a policy about quantum computing and encryption. It has two basic planks. One: fund quantum-resistant encryption standards. Note: NIST is already doing this. Two, fund quantum computing. Unlike many far more pressing computer security problems, the market...

MongoDB Offers Field Level Encryption

MongoDB now has the ability to encrypt data by field: MongoDB calls the new feature Field Level Encryption. It works kind of like end-to-end encrypted messaging, which scrambles data as it moves across the internet, revealing it only to the sender and the recipient. In such a "client-side"...

DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System

This sounds like a good development: ...a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking. The first-of-its-kind system will be designed by an...

Android Gets FIDO2 Certification—Now Supports Secure Passwordless Logins

Great news. If you have already installed the latest update of Google Play Services released earlier today, and your Android device is running Android version 7.0 Nougat or above—Congratulations! Your device is now FIDO2 Certified. Are you thinking… what the heck that actually means? It means,...

Google Ditches Passwords in Latest Android Devices

Half of all Android users can now log into apps and websites on their devices – without having to remember a cumbersome password. On Monday, Google and the Fast IDentity Online FIDO Alliance announced that devices running Android 7 or later are certified by the FIDO2 standard, meaning that users...

Tamper proofing review: the iZettle card payment terminal

Tamper resistance is an increasingly important factor in smart devices. Together with secure hardware design and defensive coding, it can deliver a very secure device. One of the most common areas the average consumer will encounter tamper resistant devices is in payment terminals, or Pin Entry...

HackRF Circuit Board - New Universal Case for PenTests

Document Title: =============== HackRF Circuit Board - New Universal Case for PenTests References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2134 Download: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/2134.rar Vulnerability Magazine:...

BSA-2017-271

Security Advisory ID : BSA-2017-271 Component : MD5 Algorithm Revision : 1.0: Interim The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is not collision resistant, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to conduct spoofing attacks, as demonstrated by attacks on the use of MD5 in the signature...

Gratipay: Gratipay uses the random module's cryptographically insecure PRNG.

Dear Gratipay bug bounty team, Summary --- Gratipay currently uses the random module's pseudo-random number generator which is not a cryptographically secure PRNG as stated in the docs: The pseudo-random generators of this module should not be used for security purposes. For security or...

Thousand electronic safe actually so that you is open a-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! With the electronic safe of the popularity, now there are more and more people began to pay attention to the electronic safe security recently security researchers exposed a crack electronic safe method, the following will take a look at it. Cheap attack high-return A safety Deposit box there a...

Decentralized P2P Websites: ZeroNet

Decentralized P2P websites using Bitcoin crypto and the BitTorrent network ZeroNet uses Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent technology to build a decentralized censorship-resistant network. Users can publish static or dynamic websites into ZeroNet and visitors can choose to also serve the website...

Lavabit Case May Be One of Many in Coming Years

SAN FRANCISCO–The Lavabit case, which saw the secure email provider’s owner shut the company down after being forced to hand over to the government the encryption key that protected his users’ data, may seem like an extreme reaction to a unique situation. But, experts say it’s likely that there...

'Our Threat Model Has Changed'

PUNTA CANA–The golden era of bulk surveillance through the acquisition of phone records and other data from telecommunications companies may already be fading, but the larger threat to privacy and security is just beginning to emerge: the use of legal tools and coercion to get around encryption a...

[GNUnet P2P Framework] v 0.9.4

GNUnet is a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking that does not use any centralized or otherwise trusted services. A first service implemented on top of the networking layer allows anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing. Anonymity is provided by making messages originating from a peer...

MD5: MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is not collision resistant

The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is not collision resistant, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to conduct spoofing attacks, as demonstrated by attacks on the use of MD5 in the signature algorithm of an X.509 certificate...

MD5: MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is not collision resistant

The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is not collision resistant, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to conduct spoofing attacks, as demonstrated by attacks on the use of MD5 in the signature algorithm of an X.509 certificate...

Check Point response to the "Evil Maid" attack

Symptoms Check Point Full Disk Encryption is not vulnerable to the "Evil Maid" attack. Solution Full technical details of the "Evil Maid" attack Check Point Full Disk Encryption is not vulnerable to the "Evil Maid" attack, as this particular program specifically targets the True Crypt boot code,...

CVE-2004-2761

The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm is not collision resistant, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to conduct spoofing attacks, as demonstrated by attacks on the use of MD5 in the signature algorithm of an X.509 certificate...