Google on Monday announced Project Wycheproof, a collection of unit tests designed to help check for weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms.
News in brief: Yahoo woes mount; Evernote backs down; ATM fraudster jailed
Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news
Yahoo breach: I’ve closed my account because it used MD5 to hash my password
This morning I received an email from Yahoo. Five minutes later I’d closed my account.
News in brief: Uber goes driverless in SFO; Skype on macOS; 2016’s breaches tallied; encryption call for cameras
Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news
Alleged upskirter ordered to hand over iPhone passcode by court
Fifth Amendment protection thrown into doubt after court rules that alleged voyeur must unlock his iPhone
Zcash Spurs Rash of Malicious Mining Software
Hackers are mining Zcash cryptocurrency surreptitiously on PCs infected with cleverly named programs such as system.exe, taskmngr.exe and svchost.exe.
Threatpost News Wrap, December 8, 2016
Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest Linux bug, Sony closing backdoors in cameras, and Google’s new open source fuzzer.
NYU Students Apply Blockchain Solution to Electronic Voting Security
A team of New York University students architected a permissioned blockchain system called Votebook that could be applied to secure electronic voting. Their solution was the winning entry of the Cybersecurity Case Study Competition sponsored by Kaspersky Lab and The…
Ransomware Gives Free Decryption Keys to Victims Who Infect Others
Ransomware still under development called Popcorn Time forces victims to either pay the ransom, or try to infect other machines in exchange for the decryption key.
OpenVPN to Undergo Cryptographic Audit
Matthew D. Green, PhD, a well-known cryptographer and researcher at Johns Hopkins University, will carry out an audit of OpenVPN.