Insights

  • Bar Mitzvah: not every 13th birthday is happy

    Thirteen years ago, a vulnerability was discovered in the widely used RC4 encryption algorithm and received almost no further attention. Now, on its 13th birthday, when boys in Jewish tradition become adults…

  • An old GHOST rears its head again

    A new vulnerability discovered this week can give hackers very easy access to Linux-based systems. So easy, in fact, that a hacker can gain full access to a Linux machine with a simple email message…

  • SSL is not quite so secure

    The green icon in your browser should give you the green light to use confidential information safely: bank transactions, personal details, medical data and more. Yet it seems more than a traffic light is needed to…