Russia has created it’s own TLS certificate organisation and has started issuing these security and trust certificates to Russian sites, who can no longer access issuing authorities outside of the country, because of sanctions. Moscow to issue TLS certificates to Russian websites • The Register
Samsung smartphones with leaky security – update and advice
Here is some follow-up to the Android Trusted Execution Environment security issue with Samsung smartphones. 100 million Samsung phones affected by encryption weakness | TechRepublic The advice here is whatever device you have, keep those patches and updates up-to-date. Samsung smartphones with leaky security – Smart Thinking Solutions Samsung Encryption …
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Samsung smartphones with leaky security
There is an academic paper from Tel Aviv University examining Samsung smartphones and how they implement the cryptographic security. They found that some models had a design flaw that allowed for the extraction of the secret keys. Trust Dies in Darkness: Shedding Light on Samsung’s TrustZone Keymaster Design (iacr.org) Here …
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Trust – #BeCyberSmart
Trust is relative, ranging from not trusting at all, to the complete trust that arises based on commonly shared expectations of honest cooperative behaviour. Francis Fukuyama, a political scientist, first defined trust in this way in his book Trust, 1995. The very fact that he could write a whole book …
