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Digital transformation and distributed denial of service

Cyberthreats are intimately tied up with digital transformation. An unfortunate irony of innovation, says Ashley Stephenson, CTO of Corero Network Security, is that the...

The Surprisingly Simple Way To Steal Cryptocurrency

In the news a few days ago, the revelation that Luke Dashjr, a core Bitcoin developer, had his wallet compromised, and lost 200 BTC....

How Encryption Works to Preserve Data Privacy

Cryptography and privacy go hand in hand: Leveraging cryptography to encrypt data for the purposes of preserving privacy isn’t a new concept. In fact, data encryption...

LastPass Cops to Massive Breach Including Customer Vault Data

LastPass has issued a statement acknowledging that a recent cyberattack has resulted in the theft of customer data, in addition to offering cybercrooks access...

Unlocking the secrets of the blockchain nonce

The blockchain nonce, one of the most important parts of blockchain encryption, has been kept under wraps for a while. Only glossaries and a...

Hardening Identities With Phish-Resistant MFA

For many years, multifactor authentication (MFA) has been key to mitigating password risk. But as MFA use has increased, cybercriminals have adapted their credential...

Adversarial AI Attacks Highlight Fundamental Security Issues

Artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) systems trained using real-world data are increasingly being seen as open to certain attacks that fool the systems...

Slack admits to leaking hashed passwords for five years

by Paul Ducklin Popular collaboration tool Slack (not to be confused with the nickname of the world’s longest-running Linux distro, Slackware) has just owned up to...

Tips for Using Telegram Safely and Securely

Telegram is a popular messaging app with over 500 million users and growing. It’s also one of the most widely-used apps for mobile messaging...

The Biggest Leaks Revealed by Edward Snowden

When 2013 began, the general public had no idea who Edward Joseph Snowden was, but by the end of the year, everyone knew his...

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