Beyond advanced mathematics or theoretical computing breakthroughs, PQC is about protecting the systems enterprises already ...

New research from FIU shows that some visual-language AI models have become particularly susceptible to image-based hacks.

"Military-grade encryption" sounds impressive in marketing materials, but the term refers to something more specific and less ...

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to make one thing ...

With the rapid growth of the volume of image data, the burden of storage and transmission has increased dramatically. However, current algorithms face challenges in balancing compression efficiency ...

Abstract: In the digital era, the protection of digital images is of paramount importance. This paper proposes a novel 5D-chaotic Encryption Algorithm Based on Dual Memristive Hopfield Neural Network ...

This week I audited three enterprise systems. All three claimed "AES-256 encryption for data at rest." All three were broken. Two used ECB mode (preserves patterns—completely broken for anything but ...

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

Update as of 2/4/2026: Details on the Windows Update rollout strategy added. As organizations face an evolving threat landscape, strengthening Windows authentication is more critical than ever. The ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

Ensuring digital image security is critical in today’s edge computing and networked communication environments. Chaotic systems offer powerful tools for lightweight, real-time encryption, but often ...

AES-NI is a CPU instruction set that accelerates AES encryption/decryption using hardware-based processing. Provides 3x–10x performance improvement over software-only AES implementations. Enhances ...