eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2024

Most cryptosystems begin with an unencrypted message known as plaintext, which is then encrypted into an indecipherable code known as ciphertext using one or more encryption keys. 650 BC: Ancient Spartans used an early transposition cipher to scramble the order of the letters in their military communications.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In more light-hearted news, Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant unsettled users by randomly laughing , which, somewhat unsurprisingly, caused many Twitter users to draw comparisons with HAL 9000 refusing to open the pod bay doors in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”. million account holders.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Observers do, however, have a pretty good idea who was behind the NotPetya attack because several governments, including the United States and the United Kingdom, issued coordinated statements blaming the Russian military. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion.

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