Quantum computers are coming and they may impact systems in unexpected ways that security teams will need to plan for.

Specops outlines the strong defenses organizations need today, from salted hashing and MFA to compromised password screening, ...

A critical vulnerability in the wolfSSL SSL/TLS library can weaken security via improper verification of the hash algorithm ...

Research suggests Bitcoin users could defend against future quantum attacks using a transaction design that works within ...

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Quantum computing’s threat to encryption is - conceptually at least – very simple. One day, perhaps quite soon, a quantum computer may be able to ...

A $30,000 AI GPU doesn't outperform consumer GPUs at password cracking. Specops explains why attackers don't need exotic ...

Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash algorithm to be hacked in an attempt to nudge users who continue using the ...

Cryptography secures communication in banking, messaging, and blockchain. Good algorithms (AES, RSA, ECC, SHA-2/3, ChaCha20) are secure, efficient, and widely trusted. Bad algorithms (DES, MD5, SHA-1, ...

Hello, we are using Ignite 2.15 in our project. In practice, we found that the partition assignment method RendezvousAffinityFunction, which is based on consistent hashing, has an issue with uneven ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced a new cryptography standard that's available for immediate use. The standard is designed to assure the protection of authenticated ...