In one of the biggest cases of irony so far, Okta, one of the worlds leading providers of Identity and access management systems to millions of customers all across the world were breached with stolen...
Over 50,000 Cisco XE devices have been compromised via a preciously unknown vulnerability. Cisco discovered active exploitation of the new vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2023-20198 in their IOS XE ...
Just over a week ago, I posted that Google had now made the use of passkeys the default option for signing in to your Google accounts. Well, the use of passkeys instead of Passwords is growing. Micros...
This week saw a combined effort from law enforcement and judicial authorities from eleven countries deliver a major blow to one of the most dangerous ransomware operations of recent years. The Ragnar_...
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) have released a statement this week showing that multiple government-backed threat actors are actively exploiting a vulnerability within the WinRAR archiving...
A post uploaded yesterday by @vx_herm1t on X shows the current home page of Russian ransomware gang Trigona and that it has appears to have been completely wiped out by the Ukrainian Cyber Alliance. W...
In the last post, I discussed the properties of cryptographic keys, and the different types of keys used in cryptography. One of the examples I gave was the one of key exchange, and that in modern sys...
So far in this short guide to encryption, we have looked at some of the terms associated with an encryption system, and some of the desirable qualities such a system should have. We have explained the...
One of the desirable properties of an encryption system is that of high variance, or entropy. The larger the number of possible values in a key, the harder it is to work out what the key could be. In ...
In the previous post, I identified a few common terms used in encryption, and then identified some early examples of ancient encryption . In those early methods of securing data, we see three more fun...