Dr. Diffie is a pioneer of public-key cryptography and was VP of Information Security and Cryptography at ICANN. He is author of "Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption".
A key compromised from a crash dump (and the many, many lessons that followed), more examples of mishandling secrets, URL parsing mismatches show path traversal works well in Rust, an old Linux kernel bug shows how brittle code can be (even when it's heavily audited), an example of keeping OSS projects alive, a quick note on BLASTPASS, and a look a...
The central crime of "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar," a new crowdfunded comic series created by a cybersecurity professional, focuses on one of the most lucrative forms of crime in the real world today: ransomware.
Openfire, Firepower, Barracuda, CosmicBeetle, Lazarus, Encryption, Network Tourism, India's on the Moon, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
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