The short version: scrypt leans on memory, forcing an attacker to buy expensive RAM-heavy hardware instead of cheap GPU ...

Red Hat's Gunnar Hellekson says Lightwell is "just getting started" after fixing more than 400 open-source Java ...

Researchers disclosed Branch Target Reuse (BTR), an attack that exploits stale branch predictions left in the CPU after JIT code is reused. This article examines the Linux root-hash experiment, what ...

In the previous articles, we learned about the mechanisms of browsers: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. These are called the frontend, which is the part of the mechanism that is visible to us. Behind that ...

You've likely been prompted to add a passkey to some of your accounts. Passwords are familiar but have many issues, while passkeys offer solid improvements but aren't ...

LastPass said its own systems were not compromised and that users’ password vaults remain secure. The exposed data was instead accessed through Klue, a market research company LastPass works with. In ...

Java 26 introduces little that is totally new, but you’ll find many important changes and improvements in Java’s libraries and runtime. With the release of JDK 26, which arrived March 17, we’ve now ...

A Norwegian researcher has identified an issue with Microsoft Edge’s Password Manager that could be a serious concern for businesses. Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning found that passwords are being ...

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For years, I’ve been told the same thing: Make your passwords longer. Add more characters, throw in symbols, mix uppercase and lowercase letters and you’ll be safer online. But as password attacks get ...