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Researchers release PoC exploit for critical Windows CryptoAPI bug (CVE-2022-34689)

January 26, 2023

Akamai researchers have published a PoC exploit for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2022-34689) in Windows CryptoAPI, which validates public key certificates. “An attacker …

Chinese researchers: RSA is breakable. Others: Do not panic!

January 25, 2023

Quantum computing poses a great opportunity but also a great threat to internet security; certain mathematical problems that form the basis of today’s most popular …

Apple delivers belated zero-day patch for iOS v12 (CVE-2022-42856)

January 24, 2023

Apple has released security updates for macOS, iOS, iPadOS and watchOS, patching – among other things – a type confusion flaw in the WebKit component …

Why encrypting emails isn’t as simple as it sounds

January 16, 2023

The quality of protected communications matters – a lot. If the sent material is highly sensitive and the legislation and/or policy demands high security, opportunistic …

Crypto audit of Threema revealed many vulnerabilities

January 11, 2023

Researchers have discovered cryptographic vulnerabilities in Swiss-based secure messaging application Threema that may have allowed attackers to do things like break …

Apple unveils end-to-end encryption for iCloud backup, Photos, etc.

December 8, 2022

Apple is expanding end-to-end encryption options for users and finally offering E2EE for their iCloud backup. Advanced Data Protection for iCloud “iCloud already …

Why companies can no longer hide keys under the doormat

November 17, 2022

For good reason, companies trust in encryption, blockchain, zero trust access, distributed or multi-party strategies, and other core technologies. At the same time, companies …

Breaking down data encryption techniques aimed at improving data privacy

November 16, 2022

In this Help Net Security video, Dana Morris, SVP Product and Engineering at Virtru, talks about privacy-preserving cryptography. He provides an introduction to data …

High-severity OpenSSL vulnerabilities fixed (CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786)

November 1, 2022

Version 3.0.7 of the popular OpenSSL cryptographic library is out, with fixes for CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, two high-severity buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the …

Incoming OpenSSL critical fix: Organizations, users, get ready!

October 26, 2022

UPDATE (November 1, 2022, 01:55 p.m. ET): OpenSSL version 3.0.7 is out, and the severity of the vulnerability has been downgraded. Check out what you should be doing next. The …

Weakness in Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption could expose email contents

October 14, 2022

WithSecure researchers are warning organizations of a security weakness in Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) that could be exploited by attackers to obtain …

Q-Day doesn’t equal doomsday: Enacting an enterprise quantum security strategy

September 15, 2022

While Quantum Day, or “Q-Day,” may be five to ten years away, it is arriving faster than we would like. Q-Day represents the day that quantum computers will reliably use the …

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