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Tag Archives: randomness
Ep. 024 – Sextortion, malicious adverts and randomness [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast – listen now!
Serious Security: When randomness isn’t – and why it matters
The password ‘ji32k7au4a83’ looks pretty random and feels as though it should be unique – read this article to find out why it’s neither!
You make your PRIVATE key PUBLIC, right? [Chet Chat Podcast 218]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. Enjoy!
Lottery chief who “rigged the randomness” is jailed for 10 years
He was supposed to protect the lottery from fraudsters and cheats, but the court was told that he used USB malware to cheat the lottery himself.
SSCC 191 – Live in Ljubljana [PODCAST]
Chester is on the road again, this time to present at a conference in Slovenia. So this episode of the Chet Chat comes to you from an al fresco café in downtown Ljubljana…
Double FREAK! A cryptographic bug that was found because of the FREAK bug
Researchers checking up on the state of FREAK patching turned up another bug as a result. Sometimes, finding programming mistakes requires serendipitous coincidences!
SSCC 187 – The cryptography edition [PODCAST]
Sophos expert John Shier sits in for regular presenter Chester Wisniewski in this episode. John and Paul Ducklin dissect the latest security issues, which were dominated this week by some thorny matters of cryptography.
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 163 – So THAT’S why you can’t erase Flash RAM properly [PODCAST]
Here’s this week’s Sophos Security Chet Chat. Our regular security podcast that turns news into useful advice…