February 07, 2019

Serious Security: Post-Quantum Cryptography (and why we’re getting it)

Here's why NIST is running a competition to find algorithms for a Post-Quantum Cryptographic world...

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July 27, 2018

Wyden urges government agencies to ditch Flash

Let's not wind up with another Windows XP mess, he said, noting that there's been no public guidance in spite of Flash's looming death date.

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June 25, 2018

Terrible passwords outlawed in Microsoft’s new Azure tool

Azure AD Password Protection prevents users from setting a password from the company’s list of 500 most common and easily-guessed examples.

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August 30, 2017

Trump’s cybersecurity advisers quit, warning of ‘insufficient attention’

Departing members leave Trump with a list of recommendations that look a lot like ... a plan

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December 22, 2016

News in brief: Groupon grief; Apple encryption delay; post-quantum crypto

Your daily round-up of some of the other security stories in the news

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October 07, 2016

‘Security fatigue’ leading computer users to more or less just give up

Either we all need naps, or security has to be made simpler for users, because many of us are exhausted by alert fatigue.

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September 05, 2016

What does “abundance of caution” mean, then? [Chet Chat Podcast 251]

Enjoy the latest episode of our regular security podcast.

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August 18, 2016

NIST’s new password rules – what you need to know

A lot of password rules are there simply "because we've always done it that way." NIST aims to fix that, and here's how.

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