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Bounty to Recover NIST’s Elliptic Curve Seeds

This is a fun challenge: The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late ’90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA. How were the seeds generated? Rumor has it that they are in turn hashes of English sentences, but the person who picked them, Dr. Jerry Solinas, passed […]

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Half of Small Businesses Hit by Cyber-Attack Over the Past Year

A new survey from accounting software provider Sage showed that most SMEs have developed a cybersecurity posture but struggle to keep up with the threats

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Half of Small Businesses Hit by Cyber-Attack Over the Past Year

A new survey from accounting software provider Sage showed that most SMEs have developed a cybersecurity posture but struggle to keep up with the threats

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Fifth of UK Cybersecurity Pros Work Excessive Hours

Workload is biggest concern for industry professionals

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Fifth of UK Cybersecurity Pros Work Excessive Hours

Workload is biggest concern for industry professionals

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends

Fifth of UK Cybersecurity Pros Work Excessive Hours

Workload is biggest concern for industry professionals

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Smashing Security podcast #343: Four-legged girlfriends, LoveGPT, and a military intelligence failure

Dream girlfriends, AI love scams, and an alleged spy who is said to have made a series of blunders. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Host Unknown’s Thom Langford.

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  • October 12, 2023

Two High-Risk Security Flaws Discovered in Curl Library – New Patches Released

Patches have been released for two security flaws impacting the Curl data transfer library, the most severe of which could potentially result in code execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2023-38545 (CVSS score: 7.5) – SOCKS5 heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability CVE-2023-38546 (CVSS score: 5.0) – Cookie injection with none file CVE-2023-38545 is the more severe of […]

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Smashing Security podcast #343: Four-legged girlfriends, LoveGPT, and a military intelligence failure

Dream girlfriends, AI love scams, and an alleged spy who is said to have made a series of blunders. All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Host Unknown’s Thom Langford.

Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends