When data breaches went from being an occasional threat to a persistent fact of life during the early 2010s, one question would come up again and again as victim organizations, cybersecurity ...

Research demonstrates that attackers adapt. As computing architectures change, so too do the economics of password cracking. What matters is not simply whether passwords are hashed, but whether ...

Researchers have produced a collision in iOS’s built-in hash function, raising new concerns about Apple’s CSAM-scanning system — but Apple says the finding does not threaten the integrity of the ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Hybrid hash function post-quantum cryptography research: a new paper on IACR ePrint formalizes a construction whose collision ...