Sales benefited from warm summer, M&S online shutdown after cyber-attack and supply improvementsNext has raised hopes that UK consumers are still willing to spend despite pressures on household budgets, as it revealed sales and profit growth “mater…
Message in a bottle penned by ‘happy as Larry’ WW1 soldiers 109yrs ago washes up on Oz beach – & it’s still readable
TWO messages in a bottle written by World War One soldiers more than a century ago have washed up on a beach in Australia. Debra Brown and her daughter Felicity made the remarkable discovery while collecting litter on Wharton Beach. Inside a glass bott…
New Atroposia RAT Surfaces on Dark Web
Atroposia is a newly discovered modular RAT that uses encrypted channels and advanced theft capabilities to target credentials and crypto wallets
Trump insists Gaza ceasefire will hold after Israeli airstrikes kill ‘more than 100 people’ overnight
Israel carried out powerful strikes on Gaza on Tuesday after a soldier was reportedly killed and Hamas handed over the wrong remains
Persepolis sinking by 30 centimeters annually amid 5,000 illegal wells
Recent radar surveys and artificial intelligence analyses by Shiraz University reveal that parts of the Marvdasht Plain in southern Iran are sinking by more than 30 centimeters each year, a growing threat to the ancient site of Persepolis, a UNESCO Wo…
Experts warn British F-35 influence has slipped, MPs told
The UK’s early leverage in the F-35 programme has diminished as other buyers outpace Britain on fleet size and use, witnesses told the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee.
The post Experts warn British F-35 influence has slipped, MPs told first appeared on UK Defence Journal.
Major Rio police raid leaves 60 suspects dead
Around 2,500 police officers and soldiers launched a large-scale raid against drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of at least 60 suspects and the arrest of 81 others, officials said.
Raid on gang in Rio leaves at least 64 people dead, including police officers
The police operation was one of the most violent in Brazil’s recent history, with human rights organizations calling for investigations into the deaths.
Signal’s Post-Quantum Cryptographic Implementation
Signal has just rolled out its quantum-safe cryptographic implementation.
Ars Technica has a really good article with details:
Ultimately, the architects settled on a creative solution. Rather than bolt KEM onto the existing double ratchet, they allowed it to remain more or less the same as it had been. Then they used the new quantum-safe ratchet to implement a parallel secure messaging system.
Now, when the protocol encrypts a message, it sources encryption keys from both the classic Double Ratchet and the new ratchet. It then mixes the two keys together (using a cryptographic key derivation function) to get a new encryption key that has all of the security of the classical Double Ratchet but now has quantum security, too…
Hurricane Melissa leaves Jamaica devastated. And, the shutdown’s impact on airports
Officials are assessing the damage after Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Jamaica as a Category 5. And, how the government shutdown is impacting air traffic controllers.