5 Ways to Measure the Quality of Your Crypto Introduction Cryptography is definitely become a more mainstream topic today. Almost every device in this world is connected to the internet and sharing information. At the same time of the increasing of number in the device, the number of sensitive data in the information shared between devices, application, and server is also increasing in a larger scale. That information must be protected, so that the sensitive data will remain private. The dominance attack today is not just about Denial of Services or Viruses just like 10 or 15 years ago. The nowadays attack is becoming more a specific purpose like data theft, eavesdropping, getting access to sensitive data like credit card numbers, …show more content…
Let’s think about the private key in the asymmetric infrastructure, if a private root key is stolen, then the trustworthy of the entire document issued by that root is undermined. And most of the time, it will need reissuing of all digital credentials that is part of the infrastructure. So that will be a time consuming process, and also at the same time, all the system that rely on those credentials is inoperable while the issuing process is taking place. There is no better reason of a poor implementation quality than heartbleed vulnerability. The first important thing here is that this is not a flaw on the SSL protocol itself, but it was a flaw in the OpenSSL implementation of the protocol. Specifically it is a flaw in the heartbeat extension which keeps the session alive between a client and server. So the door was widely open for attacker to crafts heartbeat request with short “payload” that requests a mismatched sized amount of data (memory) in return. The memory can contain sensitive data, passwords, keys, etc. Once the key has compromised, the attacker has the access to all of the traffic. The attacker will still have the access until the software is patched, or the keys in SSL certificates are updated. Many people already did the good thing in patching the OpenSSL, replacing SSL certificate, and revoking the old certificate. But they made a critical mistake of reusing the same
The aim of this document is to provide an overview on the various cryptographic technologies in use today and what the future might hold. The document will cover the following subjects:
The Heartbleed Bug was a serious vulnerability in Open SSL which allowed attackers to steal the information which needs to be protected. Ideally SSL/TLS encryption was used to secure the data that was transmitted over Internet. Multiple application, such as web, email, IM(Instant Messaging) are using the SSL for communication over Internet for security and privacy over internet. The bug allowed any user on the internet to read the protected data on the systems memory which was protected by vulnerable version of the SSL software. Due to this issue in the SSL software the security keys which are used to recognize the service providers and the critical information like how the data is encrypted, names and
Security and Reliability are huge issues when we go through the readings, throughout the module we’ve seen countless examples of how reliability can go wrong, and how we aren’t so secure in cyberspace either. In a world where there are reports of hackers exploiting security systems and stealing personal data at even the most sensitive and important computer systems, it’s said that with the “proliferation of hacker tools” the computer systems we have today are less secure than the one’s we had ten years ago. (Garfinkel, 2012) My organization will be holding sensitive private user data such as credit card numbers and personal identifiable information like first and last names, email addresses, dates of birth, and so on. My organization will have to ensure that this data is secure from hackers and is on encrypted servers. We must also ensure the transmission of data when putting in financial information to purchase items is encrypted, to ensure that the data cannot be intercepted via local networks or cookies. Security of the user’s data is paramount, any breach of trust can lead to a loss of trust between the user and the organization, resulting in financial loss. Another issue the organization will have to deal with is ensuring employees do not have improper access to personal data, that disgruntled employees cannot leak or access information once they’ve been fired, and that employees are competent in security measures to ensure human error isn’t a reason for a data breach.
First policy to analyze is “Specific Criminalization of Damaging Critical Infrastructure Computers”. This policy makes attacks that affect confidentially, integrity and availability to a critical infrastructure computer illegal and punishable by jail time and
Encryption has become a necessity in modern society due to the nature of the information we must interact with every day. Furthermore, the encryption of computer data is becoming increasingly important since much sensitive information is stored on our hard drives and human based codes are simply too easy for a computer to solve. All forms of encryption are based on cryptology which is "the science of analyzing and deciphering codes and ciphers and cryptograms". Cryptology and simple codes have been used as early as the Roman Empire. Encryption is used to ensure the confidentiality of a message that is being sent is not compromised as in case of the message being intercepted, it ensure that only authorized individuals can understand the contents. As technology, has been advancing, the complex nature of encrypting and decrypting messages have also been advancing the electronic age has brought forth many technological advances. With these advances came the need for security and tighter control on how we send information electronically over the Internet or through a network. Date encryption is, in its simplest terms, the translation of data into a secret code. To read an encrypted file, the receiver of the file must obtain a secret key that will enable him to decrypt the file. A deeper consider cryptography, cryptanalysis, and the Data Encryption Standard (DES) will provide a better understanding of data encryption.
Last but certainly not least, mobile website development is considerably more time and cost-effective than development of a native app, especially if you need to have a presence on different platforms (requiring development of multiple apps).
The most recent security measures are those in the practices of data encryption and electronic payment systems.
Basically there are two hiding techniques and those are Cryptography and Steganography. In cryptography an encryption and decryption keys will be available for encoding and decoding purpose respectively and it is having triple key to provide secured data to the receiver safely. Now in steganography not only encryption and decryption are to be done but there is cover media to provide more security and that is known as chaotic image encryption. Steganography is providing four layer security to the user and it supports media like audio files, video files, images etc. Will be there. Hence by combining these two methods we can have more security.
In this generation of advance Information Technology, people exchange the information using numerous devices to accomplish their task in routine life. Information which used to be recorded on paper is now taking form of electronic record. Personal Information is now more feasible to access or destruct for the attacker because of weak IT security like virus or attack to the system or network. To protect the privacy, individual should secure their information. However, the only way to determine flaws and recognize threats, weather it is technical or non-technical or any other, is to find vulnerability and perform risk assessments. In this paper, we will discuss the information security risk in the life and solutions to mitigate
The problem regarding privacy is one of the foremost discussed topics in today’s society where everyone has an abundant flow of information. Digitalized personal data and record of daily life can be spread through the internet very easily; thus, it made means of protecting that information more important than any time in the past, changing today’s perception about privacy from the past. Furthermore, spread in use of smart phones advanced the internet by far more, creating many more service available as well. This which that changes people’s perception and use of data mentioned above due to increased importance of protecting personal data.
Security in the age of internet has become a tremendously important issue to provide comfort not only for paranoid people but for many others who are naïve to believe that protection in digital era is essential to communication between millions of people that increasingly used as a tool for commerce.
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According to John Desmond, there are many dangerous application attacks which provides the access for end user to view system resources and private information’s by breaking the network firewalls (John Desmond, 2004).
people who use internet communicate various ways such as electronic mail, or the use of world wide web brewers. Both of these communication are not secure for sending and receiving information. In addition, the information sent over the internet include sensitive personal data which may be intercepted. The commercial activity that is going on the internet and many web sites requires from the user to fill forms and include his/her sensitive personal information such as telephone numbers, address, and credit card information. To avoid this risk and to be able to do that users would like to have a secure, private communication with the other party. Every online users needs private and secure communications for other reasons as
Now a day’s technology is changing with time, it completely occupying the human life style. It is being used everywhere in our daily life to fulfil our requirements. Humans are relying more on sensors, we are employing different sensors for different applications sometimes we may even use same sensors differently for different applications. We can not only increase the speed of life but also increase security with good ideas by