Views: 4,147 Sodium is a new, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. It is a portable, cross-compilable, installable, packageable fork of NaCl, with a compatible API, and an extended API to improve usability even further. Its goal is to provide all of the core operations needed to build higher-level cryptographic […]
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CyberChef – Cyber Swiss Army Knife
Views: 5,337 CyberChef is a simple, intuitive web app for carrying out all manner of “cyber” operations within a web browser. These operations include simple encoding like XOR or Base64, more complex encryption like AES, DES and Blowfish, creating binary and hexdumps, compression and decompression of data, calculating hashes and checksums, IPv6 and X.509 parsing, […]
NotPetya Ransomeware Wreaking Havoc
Views: 3,620 The latest splash has been made by the Petya or NotPetya Ransomware that exploded in Ukraine and is infecting companies all over the World. It’s getting some people in deep trouble as there’s no way to recover the files once encrypted. The malware seems to be trying to hide its intent as it […]
ISIS Running 24-Hour Terrorist Crypto Help-desk
Views: 8,305 There have been multiple mentioned of ISIS using encryption and ‘encrypted messaging systems’ in the news reports since the Paris incident, it turns out they mostly mean Telegram. Which we’ve only mentioned once before, when they got pounded by an epic DDoS attack. Now it turns out, ISIS has a whole help desk […]
Viber Vulnerable To Man In The Middle Attack (MITM)
Views: 4,401 So this week, researchers at the University of New Haven have been focusing on Viber and have found that pretty much everything transferred and stored on the Viber service, except the messages themselves is not encrypted either in transit or at rest (doodles, images, location data & videos). The implication of this is […]