Researchers last week described a cipher-block chaining (CBC) attack via the XML Encryption standard that could compromise secure online transactions. "The attack method "poses a serious and truly ...

The National Security Agency (NSA) is offering two families of encryption algorithms, known as block ciphers, intended to provide a level of security for such processes as authentication or ...

PDFex can bypass encryption and password protection in most PDF readers and online validation services Researchers in Germany have invented a new hack that can allow someone to break the encryption of ...

There's new reason to be leery about relying on Web-based services to handle sensitive data. A pair of German researchers revealed at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security in ...

Legacy ciphers such as triple-DES and Blowfish are vulnerable to Sweet32 attacks, which let attackers decrypt HTTPS sessions even without the encryption key There is now a practical, relatively fast ...

The news this past weekend was all Mega, Mega, Mega. We’ve covered the launch of the new “cyber locker” service (and I swear that’s the last time I’ll ever use the prefix “cyber”) and we’ve talked ...