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Category Archives: Cryptography

Bizarro Banking Trojan

May 20 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Cryptography, Malware, reports, Security

Bizarro is a new banking trojan that is stealing financial information and crypto wallets.

…the program can be delivered in a couple of ways — either via malicious links...
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Newly Declassified NSA Document on Cryptography in the 1970s

May 10 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Cryptography, nsa, Security

This is a newly unclassified NSA history of its reaction to academic cryptography in the 1970s: “NSA Comes Out of the Closet: The Debate over Public Cryptography in the...

When cryptography attacks – how TLS helps malware hide in plain sight

April 21 2021 By Paul Ducklin in Cryptography, Malware, Security

No IT technology feels quite as much of a double-edged sword as encryption.

S3 Ep26: Apple 0-day, crypto vulnerabilities and PHP backdoor [Podcast]

April 1 2021 By Paul Ducklin in Apple, Cryptography, Exploit, iOS, Podcast, Privacy, Security, Vulnerability

Latest episode - listen now!

Serious Security: OpenSSL fixes two high-severity crypto bugs

March 28 2021 By Paul Ducklin in Cryptography, Security, Vulnerability

The bug that broke security when you turned STRICT mode on...

No, RSA Is Not Broken

March 5 2021 By Bruce Schneier in cryptanalysis, Cryptography, Security

I have been seeing this paper by cryptographer Peter Schnorr making the rounds: “Fast Factoring Integers by SVP Algorithms.” It describes a new factoring method, and its abstract...

S3 Ep22: Cryptographic escapes and social media scams [Podcast]

March 4 2021 By Paul Ducklin in Cryptography, Cybercrime, Podcast, Security

Lastest episode - listen now. (And tell your friends!)

US Cyber Command Valentine’s Day Cryptography Puzzles

February 15 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Cryptography, Security

The US Cyber Command has released a series of ten Valentine’s Day “Cryptography Challenge Puzzles.” Slashdot thread. Reddit thread. (And here’s the archived link, in case Cyber Command takes the...