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First the good news. We are seeing substantial progress on patching Microsoft security vulnerabilities. Most vendors are testing applicable Microsoft patches on a timely basis ...

Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization vectors, nonces, key-agreement schemes, generating prime numbers and so on. Break the ...

Here in the US, the Constitution specifically allows law enforcement "search and seizure" with a specifically targeted warrant. That seems to be all that Hushmail ...

"The suitcase nuke is an exciting topic that really lends itself to movies," said Vahid Majidi, the assistant director of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass ...

A bit more than a year after going gold, Microsoft is already assessing and discussing some lessons learned from Vista’s underwhelming debut. ZDNet quotes Microsoft ...