Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is the act of operating on an encrypted dataset without first decrypting it. FHE seems at first to be a very abstract concept, but implemented security is both practical and lucrative. The classical example of its …
Australian companies and individuals are being hit with cyber-attacks and scams daily. As our world relies more heavily on digital technology, we are experiencing a rapid growth in attacks and breaches. Technology is always changing therefore so are …
OpenSSL 3.0 has been released, and with it there are some notable changes to the popular library used almost everywhere for implementing SSL/TLS. As of now, the OpenSSL 1.1.1 branch is still under active development, so while it’s worth evaluating …
So, you want a job in cyber security? It can be daunting trying to land your first job in a new industry, whether it’s a career change, your first job out of high school, or getting work in the industry while at university. The cyber-security …
Hackers are smart and lazy. Who would want to sit at a computer all day typing away guessing passwords? Not me. They say that lazy people are often the innovators of our society, thinking of ways to do things that require minimal time and effort. …
If you use the same password for everything this article is for you. Your passwords are the digital keys to all your information such as your banking details, contacts, messages, photos, address, and more. They hold so much power in protecting our …
FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) is a set of requirements asserted by NIST in order to centralize and make uniform the ways in which the US government manage the risks associated with securing and transporting sensitive information. …
Full Disk Encryption (FDE) refers to the practice of encrypting a device (laptop, cell phone, etc) at-rest. Decryption is performed at boot time, relying on user input, a cryptographic key stored in hardware, or a combination both. FDE is an …
It can be very difficult to bridge the gap between the theoretical and the practical. This is a pattern I’ve seen repeat itself again and again throughout my career – someone might be very technical, and very familiar with encryption, but when it …
PBKDF2, defined in RFC 2898, is a specific Key Derivation Function (KDF). A KDF is simply any mechanism for taking a password (something a user remembers or stores in a password manager) and turning it into a symmetric key suitable for cryptographic …