Most good security work is invisible by design. Today is the exception. The 2026 Cybersecurity Stars Awards winners are announced across 95 subcategories in four main award categories. The reason is ...

I'd like to thank my co-author, Martin Zugec, for his valuable contributions to this report. This intrusion adds three dimensions to the public understanding of Chinese APT activity in contested ...

PyGuard is a professional-grade security tool designed to protect your Python source code from reverse engineering, unauthorized access, and tampering. It combines AES-256 encryption with C++ ...

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 ...

This Python-module provides functions for differential and linear attacks on baby-AES, a small-scale variant of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), see [CMR2005]. This code is mainly educational ...

In the era of pervasive digital connectivity, image encryption has become a critical necessity for securing sensitive visual data against cyber threats, unauthorized access, and data breaches. Unlike ...

Malware isn’t just trying to hide anymore—it’s trying to belong. We’re seeing code that talks like us, logs like us, even documents itself like a helpful teammate. Some threats now look more like ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) models, frequently built using deep neural networks (DNNs), have become integral to many aspects of modern life. However, the vast amount of data they process is not ...

I've been writing about software and hardware for PCMag for more than 40 years, focusing on operating systems, office suites, and communication and utility apps. I've specialized in everything related ...

Google recently announced it will offer end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) email via Client-Side Encryption (CSE) to all enterprise users. While it’s still in beta, enterprise users can already send ...

Abstract: The design of the secure internet of things (IoT)-based single phase pure sine wave inverter using payload encryption of message queuing telemetry transport protocol is presented here. The ...