New research from FIU shows that some visual-language AI models have become particularly susceptible to image-based hacks.

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Background ...

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With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of encryption, cryptography engineer Filippo Valsorda wants to make one thing ...

A Python package that provides symmetric and asymmetric encryption functions for client applications of the Confy encrypted communication system, as well as prefixes that identify messages and ...

With the rapid growth of the volume of image data, the burden of storage and transmission has increased dramatically. However, current algorithms face challenges in balancing compression efficiency ...

Abstract: In the digital era, the protection of digital images is of paramount importance. This paper proposes a novel 5D-chaotic Encryption Algorithm Based on Dual Memristive Hopfield Neural Network ...

This week I audited three enterprise systems. All three claimed "AES-256 encryption for data at rest." All three were broken. Two used ECB mode (preserves patterns—completely broken for anything but ...

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

Update as of 2/4/2026: Details on the Windows Update rollout strategy added. As organizations face an evolving threat landscape, strengthening Windows authentication is more critical than ever. The ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...