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. …
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 …
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 …
Both Encryption and Hashing are fundamental building blocks of cryptosystems. When it comes to best practices for storing credentials in your application however, best practice is largely driven by what you’re trying to do. There are a lot of …
Next to encryption, hashing is perhaps the most important building block of modern cryptosystems. But what is a hash? Why is it important? How can some ways of computing a hash be better than others, and what makes a particular method suitable for …
It is a peculiar thing to see, but more and more commonly terms of art make their way into the mainstream media. It seems that every week a new article about a vulnerability, cyberattack, or data breach makes its way into public discourse. One …
Chances are that you’ve used a captive portal – possibly without knowing it! Captive Portals are a legitimate means of grabbing the users attention
It’s that time again. As protocols mature, inevitably security vulnerabilities lurking beneath the surface are uncovered by security professionals. The so-called “Racoon” vulnerability is unusual however in that it affects TLS 1.2, arguably the most …
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