Tag Archives: Security

I’ve always liked the RC4 cipher. It’s easy to understand and implement and has been in wide use for almost 30 years. Sadly, RC4’s run is over. It’s long been suspected that the NSA could break it and recent attacks … Continue reading →

If you’re running OS X and use the native mail app, you know that it can be hard to integrate the GPG encryption suite. Fortunately, there’s a custom solution for the Mac called GPGTools that integrates GPG with OS X … Continue reading →

Matthew Green over at Cryptography Engineering has a depressing piece on the security status of the network. He says that the network is hostile and that that hostility is baked in by its design. Our packets travel through routers and … Continue reading →

is the hard part.

What could go wrong?

Remember all those apologies from Lenovo after their stealth installation of the SuperFish adware was revealed? Apparently they didn’t really mean them. As the old saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” Unless … Continue reading →

Via Matt Blaze: My first assumption after reading this was that Oracle's web server was hacked and this article is a parody. https://t.co/ODpT4L76TE — matt blaze (@mattblaze) August 11, 2015 Oracle’s Mary Ann Davidson wrote an astoundingly foolish and arrogant … Continue reading →

Over at the Google Security Blog, Lulia Lon, Rob Reeder, and Sunny Consolvo have an interesting post on some research they did on what security experts do differently from non-expert to stay safe on the Internet. The post is the … Continue reading →