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Cryptography

Security Sophos 

APIC/EPIC! Intel chips leak secrets even the kernel shouldn’t see…

August 10, 2022 0 Comments Æpic leak, apic, Cryptography, cve-2022-21233, data loss, epic, sgx, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:59:05 +0000

If you’ve ever written code that left stuff lying around in memory when you didn’t need it any more… we bet you’ve regretted it!

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Security Sophos 

Slack admits to leaking hashed passwords for five years

August 8, 2022 0 Comments brute force, crack, Cryptography, data loss, dictionary attack, hashing, password, salt, Slack

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 15:14:38 +0000

“When those invitations went out… somehow, your password hash went out with them.”

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Security Sophos 

S3 Ep94: This sort of crypto (graphy), and the other sort of crypto (currency!) [Audio + Text]

August 4, 2022 0 Comments cryptocurrency, cryptogram, Cryptography, Cybercrime, Naked Security Podcast, Podcast, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:52:57 +0000

Lastest episode – listen now! (Or read if that’s what you prefer.)

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Security Sophos 

Post-quantum cryptography – new algorithm “gone in 60 minutes”

August 3, 2022 0 Comments Cryptography, nist, pqc, quantum, Quantum Computing, sike

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:55:20 +0000

And THIS is why you don’t knit your own home-made encryption algorithms and hope no one looks at them.

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Security Sophos 

Cryptocoin “token swapper” Nomad loses $200 million in coding blunder

August 2, 2022 0 Comments cryptocoin, cryptocurrency, Cryptography, defi, nomad, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:12:04 +0000

Transactions were only approved, it seems, if they were initiated by… errrrr, by anyone.

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Security Sophos 

GnuTLS patches memory mismanagement bug – update now!

August 1, 2022 0 Comments Cryptography, cve-2022-2509, double-free, gnutls, heartbleed, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 16:55:58 +0000

GnuTLS may well be the most widespread cryptographic toolkit you’ve never heard of. Learn more…

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Security Sophos 

S3 Ep91: CodeRed, OpenSSL, Java bugs, Office macros [Audio + Text]

July 21, 2022 0 Comments aes, Cryptography, Law & order, malware, Microsoft, Naked Security Podcast, Podcast, Ransomware, rsa, vba

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:47:47 +0000

Latest episode – listen now! Great discussion, technical content, solid advice… all covered in plain English.

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Security Sophos 

OpenSSL fixes two “one-liner” crypto bugs – what you need to know

July 18, 2022 0 Comments aes, Cryptography, OpenSSL, rsa, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 18:52:56 +0000

“As bad as Heartbleed”? We heard that concern a week ago, but we think it’s less ungood than that…

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Security Sophos 

S3 Ep91: CodeRed, OpenSSL, Java bugs and Office macros [Podcast + Transcript]

July 14, 2022 0 Comments aes, Cryptography, Law & order, malware, Microsoft, Naked Security Podcast, Podcast, Ransomware, rsa, vba

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:47:47 +0000

Latest episode – listen now! Great discussion, technical content, solid advice… all covered in plain English.

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Security Sophos 

OpenSSL fixes two “one-liner” crypto bugs – what you need to know

July 6, 2022 0 Comments aes, Cryptography, OpenSSL, rsa, vulnerability

Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:52:56 +0000

“As bad as Heartbleed”? We heard that concern a week ago, but we think it’s less ungood than that…

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