Don’t you get tired of searching for a cybersecurity-related image, and end up with endless images of “hackers with hoodies” and blurred lines of JavaScript code? And, sometimes, don’t you just find cybersecurity presentations to be a little boring … “Beware of clicking on the spear phishing email!”, “The only…

Let’s say we have almost 2²⁵⁶ integer point values. This will give us 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,936 different (x,y) points. Can we find a way to hash some data onto one of these points, and so it is not possible to know the data that resulted in that point, and that it is…

Like it or not, WPA2 is not secure and can be cracked using an offline dictionary attack. The core strength of the handshake between the client and the access point is the strength of the difficulty in cracking a PBKDF2 hash. If a user’s password is contained in a dictionary…

It’s not often you get to chat with the people who got you into what you do just now, but, over the past couple of weeks, I have been lucky enough to do that. So, who were they? So, the first is Bruce Schneier, and he came along and chatted…

Okay. You have 52 cards, and you have five people in the game ( Alice, Bob, Carol, Dave and Eve), and they are all remote and none of them trusts any dealer. So how can you create a game, where we shuffle the cards, and where each player will get…

And, so, yesterday, our cybersecurity students covered one of the most important areas of cybersecurity — and perhaps one of the least understood: Digital certificates and trust It’s a make-or-break time and is the point that students will actually see how all the component parts of secure and trusted communications…