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RSA and ECC are the two most common public-key crypto systems in use today. At the 2013 Black Hat conference, researchers declared that the math for cracking encryption …

For the fourth year in a row, Google has organized its Code-in contest for pre-university students to contribute to open source projects. “For many students the Google …

The founders of recently shut down encrypted email service Lavabit and encrypted communications firm Silent Circle have announced the creation of the Dark Mail Alliance, a …

ThreatConnect announced the launch of a prototype that connects commercial security products with advanced threat intelligence through an open source standard known as the …

Network Mapper – better known by its shortened name Nmap – is one of the most long-lived security tools out there. Used for scanning computer networks for ports, …

Canonical released the next version of Ubuntu for server and cloud environments. Ubuntu 13.10 delivers the latest and best version of OpenStack, and is the fastest, most …

Google has announced that they plan to reward researchers who aim to “improve the security of key third-party software critical to the health of the entire …

GnuPG 2.0.22 is a security fix release and all users are advised to updated to this version. What’s new: Fixed possible infinite recursion in the compressed packet …

Every CIO needs a reliable identity and access management (IAM) system for protecting employee, customer, and partner data – and for years, they have relied on …

Every security practitioner should by now be aware of the overwhelming advantages of logging and perusing logs for discovering intrusions into systems. But logging and log …

Popular U.S. magazine The New Yorker has made available for its potential sources an anonymous dead-drop tool that allows them to send and receive messages and files to the …

PacketFence is a fully supported, trusted, free and open source NAC solution. Among the features provided by PacketFence, there are: BYOD workflows Guests management Multiple …