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Serious Security: Post-Quantum Cryptography (and why we’re getting it)
Here’s why NIST is running a competition to find algorithms for a Post-Quantum Cryptographic world…
Bleichenbacher’s CAT puts another scratch in TLS
Researchers demonstrate Cache-like ATacks against RSA key exchange.
Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam
The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts.
Anatomy of a LOGJAM – another TLS vulnerability, and what to do about it
We’ve had BEAST, Lucky Thirteen, BREACH, BEAST, POODLE, Heartbleed and FREAK…now, it’s LOGJAM. Paul Ducklin explains, and tells you what you can do about it.
FreeBSD and the YARNBUG – more trouble at the Random Number Mill
How do you test your random number generator? How do you determine, in an ordered way, that a sequence of numbers is entirely disordered? With difficulty!
SSCC 154: Fraud, viruses, patches and encryption (in that order!) [PODCAST]
Where does your country sit on the fraud list? Just how much can you trust SMSes on Android? Is Apple serious enough about iOS security? And will Google’s End-To-End email encryption plugin save the world? Find out with Chet and Duck in this week’s Chet Chat podcast…