Digital signatures &#39;could be forged&#39;
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Encryption circles are buzzing with news that mathematical functions embedded in common security applications have previously unknown weaknesses.
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Perhaps Dan Rather should look into a new service to be announced Tuesday by Adobe Systems. The company&#39;s Certified Document Service verifies the authenticity of documents saved in Adobe&#39;s PDF, or portable document format, by adding digital signatures.
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Computer security experts estimate that tens of millions of personal computers are infected with malicious software. Some are keyloggers, recording every key stroke that the user enters -- sending valuable bank account information, passwords and credit card numbers to hackers.
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Passwords are out and tokens are the authentication wave of the future, right? Not so fast, says Jon Espenschied. The next next thing is both stranger and more familiar.
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Although some have raised concerns about votes being verified, others say special safeguards secure the system.
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Emerging technology uses a printer's fingerprint to trace and verify documents.
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Privacy advocates say that new passports that carry information about the traveler in a computer chip will be vulnerable to electronic snooping.
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Blog: Attacks on cash register data are still possible fifteen years after flaws in the systems were cited.
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Now that Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) two patent efforts regarding e-mail authentication are publicly available, anti-spam advocates are raising even more questions about how the patents might impact an industry-wide anti-spam protocol effort called Sender
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A vulnerability in Windows XP and other products means JPEG viruses may not remain just a hoary myth.
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The federal government is holding a competition for a new cryptographic hash function that will become the national standard. Really, this is exciting stuff. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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Details from chip-and-pin cards could be stolen while shoppers make purchases, scientists say.
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The United States plans to issue passports with personal data stored on radio frequency identification chips. The documents would be harder to forge, but might leave holders vulnerable to identity theft. By Ryan Singel.
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Vulnerability, rated as highly critical, could enable an attacker to compromise a user's machine.
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Hacker claims to have discovered cryptographic key that can circumvent copy restrictions on HD DVD and Blu-ray movies.
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Certificates of authority (COAs) are affixed to software packaging to let buyers know it&#39;s the real thing. But when the COA itself is counterfeit, resellers also feel the pain, Microsoft (Quote, Chart) found.
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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.