Barely a year after NIST approved Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE) based on AES they've issued a news release that one of the approved modes has...
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New 8-digit Bank Identification Numbers (BIN) could complicate PCI truncation rules and create compliance headaches for those required to maintain...
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Welcome to This Week’s [in]Security. We’ve collected and grouped together a selection of this week’s news and opinion links on security and privacy...
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Welcome to our first issue of This Week's [in]Security. We've collected and grouped together a selection of this week's news and opinion links on...
In recent news, WikiLeaks exposed a huge trove of CIA documents. Journalists and bloggers will of course have a field day with this and the general...
History The SHA-1 cryptographic hash function was introduced in 1995. Weaknesses began to be discovered in 2005, and in 2011 NIST deprecated SHA-1. The...
This year, Control Gap Inc. has donated $2,500 to The Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer which has been supporting the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre...