Security firm Mandiant has released a database that allows any administrative password protected by Microsoft’s NTLM.v1 hash ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured ...

ABSTRACT: Educational software deployment in Sub-Saharan Africa faces significant challenges due to intermittent internet connectivity and limited digital payment infrastructure. This necessitates ...

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Your browser does not support the audio element. What is so special about it? Another cryptographic algorithm with a fancy name added to your list of things to ...

The quest to make biometric data private and secure has led to the development of biometric hashing. Hashing is a one-way process in which an algorithm called a cryptographic hash function takes an ...

In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering hashing or hash functions. The concept appears throughout security, from encryption to password storage to crypto, and ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

Blockchain hype has been subsumed by the AI hype in the past couple of years. Both these technologies are relatively new. AI has a longer pedigree, going back in concept to the Golem and human ...

Computing practitioners encounter hash functions almost every day, although they may not necessarily be the center of attention. When you install software packages or updates, the authenticity of a ...