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Government lab admits to running "quantum internet" for years

Government lab admits to running "quantum internet" for years
  • Posted May 7, 2013, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web With Video
  • A government-owned lab in Los Alamos claims it has been running a "quantum internet" for more than two years, MIT Technology Review reports. Researchers worked around the traditional difficulties of interlinking quantum-based networks by creating something of a classical-quantum network…

Compression flaw may allow for HTTPS hijacking on some browsers

Compression flaw may allow for HTTPS hijacking on some browsers
  • Posted September 13, 2012, 4:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
  • Security researchers have discovered a SSL-based compression flaw which allows hackers to hijack HTTPS-encrypted web sessions. HTTPS, or HTTP Secure, is the same protocol used by online stores, banks and other websites to encrypt the sensitive data transmissions across the net.  …

LinkedIn password database leaked, company confirms intrusion

LinkedIn password database leaked, company confirms intrusion
  • Posted June 6, 2012, 3:41 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web, IT Security
  • LinkedIn may have suffered a serious blow in terms of the security and safety of its users today. Hackers claim to have leaked over 6.5 million password hashes originating from the career-focused social networking site. Although the hash values appear…

Researchers: Don't trust satellite phones, encryption broken

Researchers: Don
  • Posted February 2, 2012, 5:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Mobile Computing
  • Two researchers, Be­ne­dikt Dries­sen and Ralf Hund, managed to break the proprietary ciphers used for satellite phones, GMR-1 and GMR-2. In a public talk about their discovery, the researchers said, "Don't trust satellite phones". …

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