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Technical flaws were detected in the Swiss government’s electronic voting system. A team of cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday found this defect which could enable outsiders to replace legitimate votes with fraudulent ones. Sarah Jamie Lewis, Olivier Pereira, and Vanessa Teague published a report, which details how the issue is related to the way Switzerland’s voting […]
Certificates registered in names of real corporations are surprisingly easy to come by. The Stuxnet worm that targeted Iran’s nuclear program almost a decade ago was a watershed piece of malware for a variety of reasons. Chief among them, its use of cryptographic certificates belonging to legitimate companies to falsely vouch for the trustworthiness of […]
Some work has been already published regarding the subject of cryptograhic keys security within DRAM. Basically, we need to find something that looks like a key (entropic and specific length) and then confirm its nature by analyzing the memory structure around it (C data types). The idea is to dump live memory of a process and use […]
Publish primes with seeds, so we know there are no backdoors. Researchers with at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) and the University of Pennsylvania have called for security standards-setters to publish the seeds for the prime numbers on which their standards rely. The boffins also demonstrated again that 1,024-bit primes […]