Category: Encryption

CISA and NSA have released best practices documents on how to harden your virtual private network.

The white is pushing companies to adopt defensive measure after an unrepresented rise in ransomware attacks so far this year and in April and May in particular. “The bluntly worded open letter followed a string of escalating ransomware attacks that stopped gasoline and jet fuel from flowing up the East Coast and closed off beef

Ransomware attacks are often seen as just nuisance when you have a good backup. However it is a disaster for many businesses when you have no fallback. Remember a ransomware is a monster with two heads. One, it denies you access your data. Two, what is often not talked about is the fact an intruder

Bruce Schneier is a well known cryptographer, author and cyber security expert. Here is Bruce answering Reddit community’s questions in a “Ask Me Anything” style. If you ignore his book promotion mention, there are a lot of good and sometimes interesting questions he answered.

Estonia is a progressive country when it comes to the use of technology. It is an early adopter of innovative technology to make their population digital citizens. As with anything new there are challenges to overcome and for Estonia there is one such challenge. At the end of August 2017, the Estonian Information System Authority

Another go for encrypted file sharing. This time it is from Mozilla better known for Firefox, the open source browser. The service named Send thought not perfect allows you to share files 'safely'. In the word of Mozilla blog post "your stuff does not remain online forever".  If the connected world brought to our lives

A massive attack is underway. This has started in the Ukrain but is spreading to the rest of the world fast.  Yes it is about ransomware. It is different than perhaps the one you know. Petya is the name of this ransomware and it is also leveraging Eternalblue’s vulnerability (CVE-2017-0144) This time it is a

Encryption is in the news again. The UK Home Secretary expressed her frustration over encryption and in particular End To End encryption when it was revealed the man who carried out the terror attack at Westminster last used WhatsApp.  Encryption is a dual use technology and it is the best tool we have today to

Google has been working on the possibility of hash collision for a while. Their work focused on SHA1. They have just released the below blog post announcing the first SHA1 collision. Of course the security community has seen this coming for a number of years but this is the first proof. It has to be

I made a talk at the IDC IT Forum 2017, Dubai in the topic of encryption. My talk was title “Encrypion Is Here”. I specifically covered an area of encryption often not considered or less talked about enough and that is achieving separation of duties by leveraging File and Folder encryption.