Cryptography News

Three hackers have been charged by federal indictment over their alleged involvement in infiltrating the security of Comcast.net and subsequently redirecting the visitors of the website to web pages under their control a year back.

A new form of attack that installs a rootkit directly onto a computer's Bios system would render anti-virus software useless, researchers have warned.

November 18, 2009, 05:40 PM - Channelworld India - VeriSign has announced its strategic approach for working with the Internet community to deploy DNS Security Extensions in the .com and .net Top Level Domain Names .

Naofumi Homma, Atsushi Miyamoto, Takafumi Aoki, Akashi Satoh, Adi Samir, "Comparative Power Analysis of Modular Exponentiation Algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Computers , vol.

Crypto pioneer and Sun Microsystems' veteran chief security officer Whitfield Diffie has left the company, with database-giant Oracle's acquisition still in the air.

Alun Jones writes about security, cryptography, SSL, PKI, and pretty much anything else that bothers him enough.

Microsoft has declared its .Net Micro framework open source under the Apace 2.0 license.

The gateway allows encrypted interconnections between subscribers of the mobile and the fixed network.

Microsoft announced on Monday the release and open-sourcing of its .Net Micro Framework 4.0, which provides a .Net-based development and execution environment for small devices.

More than 95 million Web sites - including 80 million using .com names and 15 million using .net names - will have access to new security mechanisms that prevent visitors from being unknowingly sent to phony sites engaged in phishing and pharming attacks.

STMicroelectronics , a world leader in semiconductors for electronic security, has announced the AuKey turnkey solution, based on ST's ST23 highly secure microcontrollers, to help brand owners authenticate their products.

It's been quite a while since we've written about Cain & Abel, one of the most powerful tools for the Windows platform .

The Economist writes : Better than freedom? Nov 12th 2009 BAGHDAD From The Economist print edition Why Iraqis cherish their mobile phones ASKED to name the single biggest benefit of America's invasion, many Iraqis fail to mention freedom or democracy but instead praise the advent of mobile phones, which were banned under Saddam Hussein.

Listed in: News , Homebrew Applications Tags: Google , nand , Nintendo , Hex O 1 Homebrew coder Yellow8 has released a new homebrew utility that allows you to read, decrypt, decompress and dump info and URLs from the Nintendo channel download lists to either the local HD or directly from the servers.

Wired Equivalent Privacy has been provided by the 802.11 standard to provide security to the wireless networks by protecting the confidentiality and integrity in wireless networks.

Cryptology ePrint Archive susil Abstract We present several new and fairly practical public-key encryption schemes and prove them secure against adaptive chosen ciphertext attack.

Alun Jones writes about security, cryptography, SSL, PKI, and pretty much anything else that bothers him enough.

Atmel Corporation Atmel Corporation today announced a new family of secure microcontrollers targeting the highest security level for smart objects and systems.

The purpose of this blog is to give a brief idea, to the readers, about securing web applications with servlet security.

A couple of years ago I was enamored with a clever password manager that pointed the way toward an ideal solution.