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Researchers: Two in 1,000 RSA public keys are insecure

A team of researchers has found a problem in the way public keys are generated using the RSA algorithm, which encrypts sensitive online communications Read more

15 February, 2012 by Elinor Mills
An Improved Efficient Remote Password Authentication Scheme With Smart Card Over <endeca_term>Insecure</endeca_term> Networks

An Improved Efficient Remote Password Authentication Scheme With Smart Card Over Insecure Networks

In 2006, Liao et al. proposed a scheme over insecure networks. In 2006, Yoon-Yoo, and in 2008, Xiang et al. analyzed... Read more

1 November, 2011
Design and Analysis of Low Frequency Transmitter and Receiver for an <endeca_term>Insecure</endeca_term> Shallow Water Acoustic Channel of the Persian Gulf

Design and Analysis of Low Frequency Transmitter and Receiver for an Insecure Shallow Water Acoustic Channel of the Persian Gulf

Underwater acoustic communications presents unique challenges that are being overcome with advances in signal processing... Read more

25 May, 2011
QFilter: Rewriting <endeca_term>Insecure</endeca_term> XML Queries to Secure Ones Using Non-Deterministic Finite Automata

QFilter: Rewriting Insecure XML Queries to Secure Ones Using Non-Deterministic Finite Automata

This paper ask whether XML access control can be supported when underlying (XML or relational) storage system does not... Read more

11 September, 2010
QFilter: Rewriting <endeca_term>Insecure</endeca_term> XML Queries to Secure Ones Using Non-Deterministic Finite Automat

QFilter: Rewriting Insecure XML Queries to Secure Ones Using Non-Deterministic Finite Automat

This paper ask whether XML access control can be supported when underlying (XML or Relational) storage system does not... Read more

11 September, 2010

Risky websites to be named and shamed

A new online tool aims to draw attention to websites with insecure implementations of SSL, the encryption protocol that is widely used for online... Read more

25 April, 2012
A Note on Security Protocol for Multicast Communications

A Note on Security Protocol for Multicast Communications

...that the protocol recently proposed in for securing multicast communication is completely insecure. They described obvious insecurity of the multicast protocol. The proposal lacks any... Read more

1 January, 2012
An Improved Certificateless Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol

An Improved Certificateless Authenticated Key Agreement Protocol

In this paper, the authors show that their protocol is insecure against a man-in-the-middle attack which is a severe disaster... Read more

3 December, 2011
Tracing and Revoking Scheme for Dynamic Privileges Against Pirate Rebroadcast

Tracing and Revoking Scheme for Dynamic Privileges Against Pirate Rebroadcast

...provides a convenient method to distribute digital content to subscribers over an insecure broadcast channel so that only the qualified users can recover the data... Read more

7 November, 2011
Analysis on Hu et al.'s Identity-Based Broadcast Encryption

Analysis on Hu et al.'s Identity-Based Broadcast Encryption

...provides a convenient method to distribute digital content to subscribers over an insecure broadcast channel so that only the qualified users can recover the data... Read more

1 November, 2011
Message Passing With No-Key Exchange and an Additive Element at Second Pass

Message Passing With No-Key Exchange and an Additive Element at Second Pass

...Cryptography Security protocols are must for passing message confidential between parties, over insecure channels, without the need of any exchange of keys. Each communicating individual... Read more

18 October, 2011
A Practical Forward-Secure Public-Key Encryption Scheme

A Practical Forward-Secure Public-Key Encryption Scheme

In open network, cryptographic operations are often performed on insecure, unprotected, and easily-stolen devices, therefore the threat of secret key exposure... Read more

1 September, 2011
One Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch: Exploiting P2P Applications to Trace and Profile Tor Users

One Bad Apple Spoils the Bunch: Exploiting P2P Applications to Trace and Profile Tor Users

...anonymity network. However, Tor does not protect against the exploitation of an insecure application to reveal the IP address of, or trace, a TCP stream... Read more

7 March, 2011
Traitor Tracing Against Public Collaboration (Full Version)

Traitor Tracing Against Public Collaboration (Full Version)

...provides a convenient method to distribute digital content to subscribers over an insecure broadcast channel. Traitor tracing is needed because some users may give out... Read more

4 March, 2011
Generic Execution State Synchronization Framework for Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol

Generic Execution State Synchronization Framework for Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol

Nowadays, most of sensitive applications over insecure network are protected by some authenticated secure channel which is highly relies... Read more

27 February, 2011

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

5 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

7 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

10 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

13 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

14 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

16 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

18 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

18 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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