Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Ralph C. Merkle was born on February 2, 1952. He was one of the inventors of public key cryptography – a security methodology that today’s internet and communications rely on heavily. The discovery and publishing dates for public key cryptography gets a bit confusing – I am sure a white …
To learn this lesson you do not have to pay anything – the New South Wales tax payers, thanks to experts hired by their politicians and government will pay for you. As part of the cybersecurity Master’s course, we had to set up an experiment to test brute forcing of …
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Martin, the Operations manager at Octagon has written about a social engineering, phishing scam that was sent to him by a text message. Omicron Scam – Octagon Technology Have a look – you could get the same message! I also write for the Octagon blog (of course). Earlier in the …
As I have said before the prospect of incredibly powerful quantum computers, that could break the encryption that we all currently depend on, was a hot subject of discussion during my Masters course. But as Bruce Schneier shows us today it is along way in the future. Breaking 256-bit Elliptic …
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Encryption is essential for privacy when using the internet – hence the opposition to the UK Government’s Draft Online Safety Bill, that wants to put controls on the way you and I use encryption to protect the privacy of our private communications and transactions over the web. It is interesting …
