Adobe Breach 2013: 153 Million Passwords and a Crypto Blunder
On Oct 3, 2013 Adobe admitted a breach. The dump held 153 million accounts with 3DES-ECB passwords and plaintext hints. …
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Red telephone: 63 years of the hotline that was never a phone
On 08/30/1963, the Moscow-Washington hotline went live. The first message was a test pangram. And there never was a red …
Heartbleed: the OpenSSL bug that exposed 17% of HTTPS servers
In April 2014, a two-year-old bug in OpenSSL leaked private keys, passwords and session tokens from 17% of every HTTPS …
YellowKey: the zero-day that bypasses BitLocker on Windows
CVE-2026-45585 grants access to BitLocker-protected drives with brief physical access. Here is how the attack works and …