Following this story, earlier this week, about the privacy focused cloud storage company Mega: If Mega cannot decrypt your files, don’t worry hackers can… – Smart Thinking Solutions There is an update on Bleeping Computers: MEGA fixes critical flaws that allowed the decryption of user data (bleepingcomputer.com) Which is better …
If Mega cannot decrypt your files, don’t worry hackers can…
Mega is a popular cloud storage service – with over 250million users. A minimum requirement for any cloud storage service is that the data at rest in their data centres must be encrypted. It seems that Mega’s is not, even though their own publicity states your data will be safely …
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Quantum computers – it is never too early to have a plan
A simple explanation of what a quantum computer is, without going into quantum states, parallel universes and super position, is that they will be computers that will exponentially expand our computing power beyond todays classical computers. A quantum computer is not a general purpose computer but a computing device. Quantum …
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FIDO – the new word in identity authentication UPDATED 11 May 2022
This post was originally published on 9 May 2022 Original post Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, passwords and usernames seemed like a good idea for security… However in today’s connected and hacked world, where people still think it is OK to use “liverpool” or a …
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Weak cryptographic keys in the wild – UPDATED
This post was originally published on 15 March 2022 Researcher, Hanno Böck, has found very weak cryptographic keys in use that have been generated by SafeZone Crypto Libraries, once owned by Inside Secure and now owned by Rambus. These keys are so weak that consumer grade hardware running old algorithms. …
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