Day: August 25, 2016

New collision attacks against triple-DES, Blowfish break HTTPS sessions

There is now a practical, relatively fast attack on 64-bit block ciphers that lets attackers recover authentication cookies and other credentials from HTTPS-protected sessions, a pair of French researchers said. Legacy ciphers Triple-DES and Blowfish need to go the way of the broken RC4 cipher: Deprecated and disabled everywhere. Dubbed Sweet32, researchers were able to

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The catch-22 with Apple security

I recently started a new job, which I love. However, since I’m working for a San Francisco startup, of course my work computer is a MacBook Pro. Most people would be very happy about that. But I’ve been using Linux as my primary desktop platform since, like, 2008, so a Mac is an adjustment for

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