How we tested the security of various wireless devices and technologies. AirSnort is designed to recover the WEP keys of any network it sees, as quickly as possible. It does this by collecting all ...

I am working on a project that handles a lot of sensitive personal information (SSNs, etc), and thus one of the requirements is that any such data stored in the database must be encrypted.I am using ...

The vulnerability lies in how Samsung implemented a portion of the Android Trusted Execution Environment, leading to devices as new as the S21 being vulnerable to initialization vector reuse attacks.

A rule to live by with sensitive data is that at some point, your server will be compromised. With that in mind, it’s a good idea to protect your data, and more importantly your customer’s data, from ...

The big news this week is the huge flaw in Microsoft’s Active Directory, CVE-2020-1472 (whitepaper). Netlogon is a part of the Windows domain scheme, and is used to authenticate users without actually ...

Bottom line: Victims of ransomware attacks are typically advised not to pay the ransom demanded by cybercriminals. Paying up offers no guarantee that the attackers will uphold their end of the deal, ...

OpenBSD project leader Theo de Raadt disclosed an e-mail earlier this month in which former NETSEC CTO Gregory Perry claimed that his company was paid by the FBI to plant a "backdoor" in the OpenBSD ...

The most recent Key Group ransomware variant is out of business, thanks to a free tool victims can use to decrypt compromised data. Researchers at EclecticIQ have the developed the tool and estimate ...

Researchers at Israel’s Tel Aviv University have uncovered a serious security flaw with Samsung smartphones ranging from the Galaxy S8 in 2017 to last year’s Galaxy S21. This is part of a paper titled ...