You can carry on shopping online… At the beginning of the year I ran a short story on some Chinese research that said it had taken a step towards breaking the encryption we all depend on the use the internet and electronic communications securely: Breaking encryption – Smart Thinking Solutions …
Breaking encryption
Encryption is a fundamental element of our security and privacy online. Without it you could not shop online using your credit card or have a private conversation. Encryption is is encoding of your information using computational methods – the more complicated the computations the more secure the encryption is. But …
LastPass now admit that the hackers copied the user password files
OK the files are encrypted and supposedly will take forever to crack – using today’s technology. But the real issue here is that LastPass has taken all this time to work out that the hackers did get password files – something that LastPass has previously denied. That denial had reassured …
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Cracking Ransomware Encryption
You should not rely on the technique in this article as your “ransomware recovery plan”: Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys – Krebs on Security If you read the article, you can see that breaking the ransomware encryption is not easy or guaranteed. Neither should you plan on paying up: …
USB data storage devices – useful but risky
A few weeks ago, I was asked to write an article looking at the ups and downs of using USB data storage devices in businesses: If you must use portable USB drives, then you must read this… – CyberAwake One of the down sides was the Japanese man who loss …
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