Security News

Crypto is hard. Really, really hard. The more you learn about it the harder it gets, because you understand more about what can go wrong (Slashdot) (Reddit)
2015-05-11 20:10

Dumb Crypto in Smart Grids: Practical Cryptanalysis of the Open Smart Grid Protocol (PDF) (Reddit)
2015-05-11 17:10

Flawed crypto endangers millions of smart grid devices (Help Net Security)
2015-05-11 11:33

The cryptography used in the Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP), one of the most widely used smart meter and smart grid device networking standards, can be easily cracked, researchers have found. Phil...

Weak Homegrown Crypto Dooms Open Smart Grid Protocol (Threatpost)
2015-05-07 18:58

Researchers in Europe have published research examining weak, homegrown cryptography used in the Open Smart Grid Protocol.

'Just follow the damn Constitution!' FBI, DoJ skewered over demands for crypto backdoors (The Register)
2015-05-04 00:05

Some notes on why crypto backdoors are unreasonable (Reddit)
2015-04-30 14:20

Congress, Crypto and Craziness (Threatpost)
2015-04-30 11:34

A Congressional hearing on encryption and "frontdoors" produced a generous amount of the usual "crazy" from lawmakers and law enforcement.

SHA-1 crypto hash retirement fraught with problems (The Register)
2015-04-30 08:20

Why Crypto Backdoors Wouldn't Work (Reddit)
2015-04-28 23:48

Second Crypto Bug in Networking Library Could Affect 25,000 Apps (Threatpost)
2015-04-27 15:38

A few weeks after the developers of the AFNetworking library that’s popular among iOS and OS X app developers patched a serious bug in the library that enabled man-in-the-middle attacks, another,...