Tag: rsa
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RSA 2018: the good, the bad, the ugly, the great and the fantastic
Two weeks ago, I was one of the more than 50,000 people who attended the RSA expo in San Francisco. I deliberately say ‘expo’, for while I spoke at the event two years ago, this year I didn’t have the time to attend any of the talks – which certainly wasn’t for a lack of…
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RSA 2018: the good, the bad, the ugly, the great and the fantastic
Two weeks ago, I was one of the more than 50,000 people who attended the RSA expo in San Francisco. I deliberately say ‘expo’, for while I spoke at the event two years ago, this year I didn’t have the time to attend any of the talks – which certainly wasn’t for a lack of…
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Virus Bulletin at RSA
Next week, I will be joining the international security community to attend the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Though it lacks the intimate atmosphere of so many smaller security conferences, there is probably no better place than RSA to meet so many security experts and discuss the things they’re working on. I’m certainly looking forward…
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Virus Bulletin at RSA
Next week, I will be joining the international security community to attend the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Though it lacks the intimate atmosphere of so many smaller security conferences, there is probably no better place than RSA to meet so many security experts and discuss the things they’re working on. I’m certainly looking forward…
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How broken is SHA-1 really?
Earlier this month, I gave a talk entitled ” How Broken Is Our Crypto Really? ” at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. In the presentation, I looked at vulnerabilities found in cryptographic protocols and analysed the likeliness of these being exploited in practice. I spent a few minutes talking about SHA-1 and stated that…
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RSA and BSides San Francisco
Next week, almost everyone with a stake in or an opinion on IT security will be in San Francisco for the annual RSA Conference . I will be there as well, and although Virus Bulletin doesn’t have a booth at the event, I am looking forward to meeting old and new friends and discussing our…
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FREAK attack takes HTTPS connections back to 1990s security
Golden keys from the (first) crypto wars have come back to haunt us. When a web client makes a secure connection to a web server (using HTTPS), it starts by sending a ‘Hello’ message in which it announces which cipher suites it supports. The web server then chooses one, presumably the one that offers the…
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Researchers crack ransomware encryption
‘Bitcrypt’ authors confused their bytes and digits. Two French researchers have found a serious vulnerability in a new piece of ransomware that has allowed them to crack the keys used by the malware to encrypt the victim’s files. CryptoLocker has become known as the unfortunate crypto success story of 2013. While stories about broken cryptography…
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RSA gives insight into anatomy of attack on its systems
Publicly available information used to spear phish employees. Security company RSA has released some information about how hackers gained access to its systems, giving a good insight into how such attacks take place and providing some useful lessons for the industry as a whole. The first step taken by the hackers was to obtain publicly…