German academics have developed a new attack that can extract and steal data from encrypted PDF files, sometimes without user interaction. Named PDFex, the new attack comes in two variations and was ...

The big picture: PDF encryption, as you can imagine, is commonly used in the world of business to protect trade secrets, confidential images and even health records. Some even send e-mail messages as ...

PDFex can bypass encryption and password protection in most PDF readers and online validation services Researchers in Germany have invented a new hack that can allow someone to break the encryption of ...

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comment The Data Encryption Standard, or DES, was a mid-'70s brainchild of the National Bureau of Standards: the first modern, public, freely available encryption algorithm. For over two decades, DES ...

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products sold ...

It’s the end of an era for one form of VPN encryption: the federal government says that simple Data Encryption Standard can no longer stand up against brute-force attacks. The National Institute of ...

Data encryption refers to the process of transforming electronic information into a scrambled form that can only be read by someone who knows how to translate the code. Encryption was already used by ...

BERLIN (AP) — Cybersecurity researchers in Europe say they have discovered a flaw in an encryption algorithm used by cellphones that may have allowed attackers to eavesdrop on some data traffic for ...