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Diffie-Hellman-Branston Key Exchange
You may well be familiar with the Diffie-Hellman Key exchange, which was publicly announced in 1976. If not, they are considered, by many, to be the fathers of public key cryptography. However, another story has since surfaced that may mean adding another name to the PIK’IT father list.
In laymans terms this is how [...]
Pwntry
What is pwntry?
pwntry is an extremely technical and complex form of poetry. Those endowed with such abilities write with an unequalled eloquence rarely if ever seen in human literature. Some believe it to be the next stage of our monkey -> human -> super hero evolution.
This term although used loosely elsewhere has never before been [...]
Asking for trouble…
The UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown admits something that we knew all along in that the weakest point of secure system are the people who use it! It was reported that mistakes that happened in the most recent loss of tax return information by Atos Origin were “human” and mistakes would happen because people were [...]
Stocks and Hacks
People are now getting a bit more adventurous in what kind of attacks they perform. This one goes for the root of all evil, money and stock market. An Asian fellow gained access to an Internet brokerage and proceeded to dump all existing holdings and bought for himself lightly traded stocks to inflate the price [...]
Danger danger botnets are coming… to a social network near you!
Well I guess it was only matter of time but there is a worm, koobface (they should have really called it n00bface IMHO) that sends a variety of comments and messages to the friends of anyone infected by the malicious program. There is accompanying link which seems fine but then it asks you to update [...]
