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Webhosting management company cPanel suffers break-in, lets slip customers'...
Webhosting management company cPanel recently announced a worrying sort of compromise: the possible theft of its customers' root passwords. Paul Ducklin looks at what happened, and what's being done to...
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Anatomy of a change - Google announces it will double its SSL key sizes
Google just announced that its secure web pages will be ditching 1024-bit RSA keys in favour of 2048 bits. We look at the lessons to be learned from whats, the whys and the wherefores of this change...
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Cheeky Lavabit *did* hand over crypto keys to US government after all -...
Just under two months ago, we wrote about the mysterious closure of Edward Snowden's secure email service, Lavabit. With the unsealing of US court documents, a fascinating (and cheeky) cryptographic...
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You make your PRIVATE key PUBLIC, right? [Chet Chat Podcast 218]
Here's the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. Enjoy!
View ArticleAdobe security team posts public key – together with private key
If you generate an encryption keypair and you get a public key and a private key, which one do you think you should keep to yourself?
View ArticleBitcoin’s soft and vulnerable underbelly
Your bitcoins are only as safe as your private key
View ArticleBlockchain Bandit stole $54 million of Ethereum by guessing weak keys
Someone has been quietly pilfering Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars without anyone noticing or, apparently, caring.
View ArticleOpen Sesame! Zipato’s smart hub hacked to open front doors
The Zipato controller has three critical security flaws which could be used together by hackers to open your home’s doors for you, according to researchers.
View ArticleFacebook loses control of key used to sign Android app
What should be a private key used to vouch for the 'Free Basics by Facebook' app was used to sign unrelated apps.
View ArticleAttention gamers! Motherboard maker MSI admits to breach, issues “rogue...
Stealing private keys is like getting hold of a medieval monarch's personal signet ring... you get to put an official seal on treasonous material.
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