“Fundamentally, the issue that leads to Kerberoasting is bad passwords,” Tim Medin, the researcher who coined the term ...

Users of GnuPG, OpenSSL and Git could be in danger from an attack that’s practical for ordinary attackers to carry out. A proof-of-concept attack has been pioneered that “fully and practically” breaks ...

Many discussions of “hybrid encryption” begin with some debate about just what this means. Hybrid encryption in general refers to the combined use of public-key (asymmetric) cryptography with ...

In the movies, hackers typically enter a few keystrokes and gain access to entire networks in a matter of seconds. In the real world however, attackers often start out with nothing more than a ...

The Bitcoin (BTC) hash rate — the total computing power of the bitcoin network — reached new all-time highs this week, data from monitoring resource Blockchain.com confirmed on June 19. As the Bitcoin ...

How mining works is fascinating. When I explain it to people, I enjoy seeing their face the moment their mind is blown. I’ll explain it here, but just know, I’m imagining all your faces as your minds ...

Many readers responded to the recent newsletter on multi-function security boxes that support VPNs, and raised new issues. Redundancy was brought up over and over. If a single device performs many ...

The Linux hash command provides information about commands on your system or those you've run recently, but what you see depends on the shell you are using. When you type “hash” on a Linux system, you ...