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Douglas Duchak charged over bid to damage US security databaseA Colorado man has been charged with trying to sabotage a U.S. security database that holds sensitive information used for screening air travelers, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
Source : Topix.net | 12-Mar-2010 18:32
Schneier: Fight for privacy or kiss it good-bye
If the public wants online privacy it had better fight now for laws to protect it because businesses won't and individuals don't have the clout, security expert Bruce Schneier told RSA Conference.
Source : Topix.net | 12-Mar-2010 10:04
Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow as ISP Troyak Knocked out
Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines.
Source : Topix.net | 12-Mar-2010 01:56
No-Fly List Includes the Dead
Source: Wired You may be dying, figuratively, to get off the governmenta s no-fly list, but death wona t guarantee removal.
Source : Topix.net | 11-Mar-2010 17:34
Lock Down Vista Security with Smart Cards
If you've always wondered what a smart card is, here's how to think about it: a smart card, used for authentication, is a mini computer that has a hardware and software component.
Source : Topix.net | 11-Mar-2010 09:22
IBM z/OS 1.12: New features, improvements explained
Rating: --- On Feb. 9, IBM announced the release of mainframe operating system z/OS 1.12 , which the company plans to make available by September of this year.
Source : Topix.net | 11-Mar-2010 03:27
Cryptographers Warn About Security Dangers in the Cloud at RSA
Government intervention in cloud computing is "the big elephant in the room that no one will talk about," said Adi Shamir, professor of mathematics and computer science at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, who spoke at the recent RSA Conference as part of the event's annual Cryptographers' Panel.
Source : Topix.net | 10-Mar-2010 07:49
1024-bit RSA encryption cracked by carefully starving CPU of electricity
Since 1977, RSA public-key encryption has protected privacy and verified authenticity when using computers, gadgets and web browsers around the globe, with only the most brutish of brute force efforts felling its 768-bit variety earlier this year.
Source : Topix.net | 09-Mar-2010 18:24
Second generation quantum cryptography in developement
Telstra's External Research and Development Program to help support development of the technology by QuintessenceLab 09 March, 2010 13:24 A second generation quantum cryptography technology has moved a step closer to commercial reality, winning Telstra's External Research and Development Program.
Source : Topix.net | 09-Mar-2010 05:38
Blog - Theoretical Breakthrough For Quantum Cryptography
Quantum cryptography only works if Alice and Bob share their relative positions in advance.
Source : Topix.net | 08-Mar-2010 11:53
Ok, Be Afraid if Someone's Got a Voltmeter Hooked to Your CPU
"Unfortunately, these promotional parts of the paper are the sections that focus on the negative implications for OpenSSL.
Source : Topix.net | 08-Mar-2010 02:36
RSA: Cryptographers discuss wisdom of 'foolishness'
At the RSA conference in San Francisco, a panel of leading cryptographers reveal some of the lessons they have learned while making seemingly imprudent decisions.
Source : Topix.net | 06-Mar-2010 04:52
Former NSA tech chief: I don't trust the cloud
Source: IT World The former National Security Agency technical director told the RSA Conference he doesn't trust cloud services and bluntly admonished vendors for leaving software vulnerabilities unpatched sometimes for years.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Mar-2010 04:47
'Severe' OpenSSL vuln busts public key crypto
Computer scientists say they've discovered a "severe vulnerability" in the world's most widely used software encryption package that allows them to retrieve a machine's secret cryptographic key.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Mar-2010 00:27
RSA 2010: Cryptographers tout the virtue of foolishness
Playing the fool isn't always a bad thing, according to a panel of encryption veterans at the RSA 2010 conference.
Source : Topix.net | 04-Mar-2010 03:12
NSA, cryptoexperts jab at RSA Conference Cryptographers' Panel
SAN FRANCISCO The annual Cryptographers' Panel at the RSA Conference is part state of the union on cryptography and security, and part homage to the pioneers of encryption.
Source : Topix.net | 03-Mar-2010 02:59
Noesis Technologies releases Nist Fips-197 compliant Low Power Aes Ip core
March 1, 2010 -- Noesis Technologies announced today the immediate availability of its NIST FIPS-197 compliant Advanced Encryption Standard IP core .
Source : Topix.net | 02-Mar-2010 14:36
Geeks and Lawyers Confer on Security
Filed under: Cybersecurity , Legal Issues - by Jessica Herrera-Flanigan on March 1, 2010 Today marks the opening of the RSA Conference where geeks and cyberwonks gather in San Francisco for five days of information security overload.A The conference, started in 1991 as a conference where approximately 50 cryptographers gathered to talk shop, is ...
Source : Topix.net | 02-Mar-2010 06:23
Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 5
Random numbers are used in many domains, from networking protocols, to cryptography, to selection of a starting point for integrated circuit place and route algorithms, simulations, and computer graphics.
Source : Topix.net | 01-Mar-2010 22:05
How to prepare for, and install GoDaddy SSL certificate into GlassFish v3
Here are steps showing you how to prepare and install a SSL certificate purchased from Godaddy into GlassFish v3 server.
Source : Topix.net | 01-Mar-2010 13:56
Microsoft patents automatic device pairing system
A recent patent application describes a system devised by Microsoft to enable automatic pairing of devices over short-range wireless connections such as Bluetooth and Wireless USB.
Source : Topix.net | 01-Mar-2010 03:55
Some notes on DNSCurve
OpenDNS has decided to adopt DNSCurve to secure its traffic. Some background might be helpful here: DNS, of course, is susceptible to a variety of forgery attacks, which is why the IETF has spent approximately 10 trillion man hours developing DNSSEC .
Source : Topix.net | 27-Feb-2010 03:40
UK Registry to Implement DNS Security Protocol
PCWorld.com is upgrading some back-end systems. Some site features, such as user registration, may be temporarily unavailable.
Source : Topix.net | 26-Feb-2010 19:31
A few crazy things the PS3's Cell does for science
On the surface, the Playstation 3 unit is a convenient Blu-ray player and game machine built in one for entertainment purposes.
Source : Topix.net | 26-Feb-2010 11:30
Comcast (finally) brings security extensions to DNS
For now, Comcast users who want to use the technology, known as DNSSEC, or DNS Security Extensions, must manually configure their preference by changing their DNS server's IP addresses to 75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76, Comcast said on Tuesday.
Source : Topix.net | 26-Feb-2010 03:22
Encrypt & Decrypt your AJAX traffic -Microsoft Silverlight and Ajax.NET Professional
It is possible to put an AJAX token. With Silverlight we get the System.Security.Cryptography name space on the client a ' before it was not very easy to encrypt a string without any plug-in . Encrypt and Decrypt method given below,how to implement cryptography in Ajax.NET Professional.
Source : Topix.net | 25-Feb-2010 03:02
eCryptfs: a Stacked Cryptographic Filesystem
A new cryptographic filesystem in the Linux kernel uses stacking technology. The media has been delivering a seemingly endless stream of reports of lost or stolen laptops, backup tapes, hard drives and servers from government and corporate facilities.
Source : Topix.net | 24-Feb-2010 02:55
SocialVPN: Enabling wide-area collaboration with integrated social and overlay networks
Tags Abstract Trusted collaborative systems require peers to be able to communicate over private, authenticated end-to-end channels.
Source : Topix.net | 23-Feb-2010 03:39
CISSP Video Mentor
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Source : Topix.net | 21-Feb-2010 05:35
meet-in-the-middle attack
Such an attack makes it much easier for an intruder to gain access to data. The meet-in-the-middle attack targets block cipher cryptographic functions.
Source : Topix.net | 20-Feb-2010 05:28
Irdeto acquired high security IP from Philips Electronics for its Cloakware solution
In the ever-evolving software security space, white-box cryptography is emerging as a key technology to combat hacking and intellectual property theft in unsecure, untrusted environments, which is a common problem for PCs, set-top boxes and other devices involving DRM and conditional access applications.
Source : Topix.net | 20-Feb-2010 00:52
Baseline/Extended Sequential JPEG Encoder (12bits) from Alma Technologies
Alma Technologies S.A. is a private company based in Athens-Greece, founded in 2001.
Source : Topix.net | 19-Feb-2010 00:51
Elliptic Technologies Offers Solution to Longstanding Security...
Elliptic Technologies Offers Solution to Longstanding Security challenge - implementing asymmetric or public key cryptography February 16, 2010 - Ottawa, Canada: Security IP provider Elliptic today announced that it has released a comprehensive solution to perhaps the most difficult challenge today facing designers in security - implementing ...
Source : Topix.net | 17-Feb-2010 00:45
High Performance RSA and ECC Public Key Acclerator from Elliptic Technologies
Security is a hot topic whether you're doing designs in wireless, Ethernet switching or wide area networking.
Source : Topix.net | 16-Feb-2010 00:02
Asigra Cloud Backup Platform Achieves FIPS 140-2 Certification for...
Industry First Validation of Agentless Cloud Backup Security Protocols Ensures Compliance with Corporate and Government Security Mandates Across Backup Infrastructure TORONTO - " February 8, 2010 - " Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup and recovery software provider since 1986, today announced that the U.S. National Institute of Standards and ...
Source : Topix.net | 14-Feb-2010 02:02
Encryption pioneer who risked career becomes Hamming Medalist
Thirty-five years ago, Martin Hellman, Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle developed an easy method for sending secure messages over insecure channels.
Source : Topix.net | 12-Feb-2010 01:42
SPYRUS Proud to Be Shipping Devices Implementing Higher Security...
SPYRUS, Inc. today announced that their secure storage devices implement the XTS-AES data encryption algorithm as specified in the National Institute for Science and Technology Special Publication 800-38E . XTS-AES is a mode of operation of the Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm specifically designed to protect storage media through ...
Source : Topix.net | 11-Feb-2010 07:11
Processors handle encryption/compression
The 8200 series PCI-Express applied services processors provide power-efficient encryption and compression for storage and networking applications.
Source : Topix.net | 10-Feb-2010 07:11
Review: 3 encryption apps keep your data safe
Laptop computers have become mobile stores of massive amounts of information. Add to that the proliferation of removable hard drives, and it becomes crystal clear how much sensitive data is on the move in the world, most of it woefully underprotected.
Source : Topix.net | 09-Feb-2010 16:14
Microscope-wielding boffins crack cordless phone crypto
Cryptographers have broken the proprietary encryption used to prevent eavesdropping on more than 800 million cordless phones worldwide, demonstrating once again the risks of relying on obscure technologies to remain secure.
Source : Topix.net | 08-Feb-2010 20:58
Making packet processing more efficient with network-optimized multicore designs: Part 2
Apart from common operations performed by any network processing intensive application , packet processing involves some specific operations that cannot be efficiently implemented with a general purpose instruction set.
Source : Topix.net | 08-Feb-2010 12:47
New Attack on Threefish
At FSE 2010 this week, Dmitry Khovratovich and Ivica Nikolic presented a paper where they cryptanalyze ARX algorithms : " Rotational Cryptanalysis of ARX ." In the paper, they demonstrate their attack against Threefish .
Source : Topix.net | 07-Feb-2010 18:52
So I deleted it without reading it.
Alun Jones writes about security, cryptography, SSL, PKI, and pretty much anything else that bothers him enough.
Source : Topix.net | 06-Feb-2010 07:51
Kaspersky: Google hack takes spotlight from Russia
Robert McMillan 05 February, 2010 12:06 Eugene Kaspersky Kaspersky Lab may not be a household name in the United States, but in some parts of the world, it's the most popular consumer antivirus software.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Feb-2010 07:35
IP Cores, Inc. Announces an Update of its Elliptic Curve Crypto Accelerator
February 2, 2010 -- IP Cores, Inc. has announced availability of a revision 2 of its popular ECC1 elliptic curve acceleration IP core.
Source : Topix.net | 05-Feb-2010 02:57
SMIC, SSHIC deliver smart card IC using 0.162 m EEPROM
Shanghai Huahong Integrated Circuit Co. Ltd announced that its design of a high-end contactless smart card IC has successfully entered into commercial production at Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp.
Source : Topix.net | 04-Feb-2010 02:41