encryption
Breaking down data encryption techniques aimed at improving data privacy
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)
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!
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
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
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 …
Better than a fix: Tightening backup and restore helps financial services companies innovate
We all know the risks out there. Ransomware is a huge threat, and critical transactional data is constantly under attack. Meanwhile, financial services organizations are being …
Researchers publish post-quantum upgrade to the Signal protocol
PQShield published a white paper that lays out the quantum threat to secure end-to-end messaging and explains how post-quantum cryptography (PQC) can be added to the Signal …
OpenFHE: Open-Source Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic primitive that enables performing computations over encrypted data without having access to the secret key. In this Help …
Researchers create key tech for quantum cryptography commercialization
In modern cryptosystems, users generate public and private keys that guarantee security based on computational complexity and use them to encrypt and decrypt information. …
NIST unveils four quantum-resistant encryption tools to protect sensitive electronic information
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of quantum-resistant encryption tools, designed to withstand …
Q-Day: The problem with legacy public key encryption
In the power circles where policy and technology meet, there always seems to be someone with his or her “hair on fire” about some issue or another, and it can be difficult to …
NIST selects 4 quantum-resistant encryption algorithms
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of quantum-resistant encryption tools, designed to withstand …
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