Tag: Hashing
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Hashing from A to Z
Safeguarding your data and personal information has never been more important than today and hashing is a widely used method that acts as a …
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AI helps experts find thousands of child sexual abuse imagery keywords
A team of 13 analysts at the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) have used machine learning to help them figure out what secret code words are …
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OpenSSH eases admin hassles with FIDO U2F token support
OpenSSH version 8.2 is out and the big news is that the world’s most popular remote management software now supports authentication using …
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Apple’s scanning iCloud photos for child abuse images
Apple has confirmed that it’s automatically scanning images backed up to iCloud to ferret out child abuse images. As the Telegraph …
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SSDEEP – Fuzzing Hashing Techniques to Detect Unknown Malware
AV vendors use various tools and techniques to identify the newly launched malware from the advisory. Before driving into reversing a …
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Mixcloud user accounts up for sale on dark web
A hacker is ransoming account data stolen from UK-based music streaming service Mixcloud, according to news websites contacted by the …
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Computing enthusiast cracks ancient Unix code
Old passwords never die – they just become easier to decode. That’s the message from a tight-knit community of tech history enthusiasts …
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218 million Words With Friends players lose data to hackers
On 12 September, Zynga released a low-key statement saying that it had been beset by an “unfortunate reality” of doing business today: …
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Group says its blockchain-based encryption scheme makes passwords all but impossible to crack
The Tide Foundation, a nonprofit organization that’s building an open-source framework for protecting personally identifiable …
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Pass the salt! Popular CMSs aren’t securing passwords properly
A group of researchers has discovered that many of the web’s most popular content management systems are using insecure algorithms to …
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Study throws security shade on freelance and student programmers
Security researchers often dump on users for their cruddy password practices. But what about the developers who write the code that’s …
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Decoded: Examples of How Hashing Algorithms Work
If cryptography was a body, its hashing algorithm would be the heart of it. If cryptography was a car, its hashing algorithm would be its …
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