Crypto researchers abuzz over flaws
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ZDNet UK: Encryption circles are buzzing with news that mathematical functions embedded in common security applications have previously unknown weaknesses.
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It&#39;s not just the privacy issue of multiple users on a computer and the tool indexing everyone&#39;s contents anymore. According to a Rice University computer scientist, the flaw could allow an attacker to search
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It&#39;s not that there aren&#39;t Unix attacks that work. It&#39;s that pretty much everything the security industry does misrepresents the actual balance between attacks on Microsoft&#39;s products and attacks on Unix and open source.
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A new hacking method is causing concern for the lengths it goes to avoid detection by security software and researchers.
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Researcher who demonstrated the "sidejack" attack at Black Hat USA now says even encrypted Gmail can be compromised.
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Reports of vulnerabilities found by some peer-to-peer file sharers prompt patch.
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Some scientists finger prions, but other researchers remain unconvinced. In Wired Science.
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Researcher finds two flaws that under unusual circumstances could let a malicious program read private data or render a phone unusable.
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I?ve been involved in a lot of FIPS-compliance Web site testing lately. I?m a crypto hobbyist, not a crypto expert, so I hesitate to write about it, but I?ll explain the basics as well as I understand them. Crypto experts, please write in if I messed up something important.
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A new breed of malware is raising questions about how long traditional signature-based security apps will be able to fend off viruses and worms, according to experts at this week's RSA Security conference.
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InfoWorld - Users of online banking sites tend to bypass critical clues that the integrity of those sites may have been compromised, according to the working draft of a study released on Sunday by researchers at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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A new attack against implementations of the popular RSA encryption scheme demonstrates how hard it is to protect information when someone else has control of the computer on which it resides.  Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Researchers' suggestions of using wormlike software to distribute patches draws security concerns.
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Group says popular technique threatens U.S. security by sidelining other approaches more suited to decryption and the like.
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For some security researchers who uncover flaws in leading computer programs, a nod of appreciation from software companies is no longer enough.
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A study released the Computer Security Institute indicates that legal frameworks designed to catch up online attacks are hamstringing security researchers.
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Distributed computing experiment conducted over the course of 11 months points to a need for stronger encryption in the next five to ten years.