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NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards

Schneier on Security

Cryptographers hate being rushed into things, which is why NIST began a competition to create a post-quantum cryptographic standard in 2016. The idea is to standardize on both a public-key encryption and digital signature algorithm that is resistant to quantum computing, well before anyone builds a useful quantum computer.

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Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program

Schneier on Security

The first concern was over high numbers: in both 2016 and 2017, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court issued 40 orders for collection, but the NSA collected hundreds of millions of CDRs, and the agency provided little clarification for the high numbers. For a time, the new program seemed to be functioning well.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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Russian-speaking cybercrime evolution: What changed from 2016 to 2021

SecureList

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. Applications have become more complex, their architecture better. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible. The year 2016 saw banks in Russia hacked one after another.

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Experts spotted a new Mirai variant that targets new processors

Security Affairs

Palo Alto Networks researchers discovered a new variant of the Mirai malware that is targeting more processor architectures than previous ones. Mirai botnet continues to be one of the most dangerous malware in the threat landscape, experts at Palo Alto Networks discovered a new variant that targets more processor architectures than before.

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Sodin Ransomware includes exploit for Windows CVE-2018-8453 bug

Security Affairs

In October, Kaspersky revealed that the CVE-2018-8453 vulnerability has been exploited by the APT group tracked as FruityArmor , a cyber-espionage group that was first observed in 2016 while targeting activists, researchers, and individuals related to government organizations. For entities not in the registry, we use invented names.”

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Deadglyph, a very sophisticated and unknown backdoor targets the Middle East

Security Affairs

In 2016, researchers from the non-profit organization CitizenLab published a report that describes a campaign of targeted spyware attacks carried out by the Stealth Falcon. The Deadglyph’s architecture is composed of cooperating components, a native x64 binary and other.NET assembly.

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