Distance bounding protocols are essential security measures designed to authenticate the proximity of a user or device to a verifier, thereby preventing relay attacks. Relay attacks occur when an ...

What's missing from this article is a discussion of what the IETF HTTPBIS working group is doing about it. Here's a link to the thread on the mailing list: https ...

The possibility of a large-scale cyber-attack having serious repercussions in the physical world and crippling an entire sector or society, is no longer unthinkable. To prepare for major cross-border ...

What's in a DDoS attack? First of all, these attacks have changed a lot over time. Maybe not in terms of vectors, per se, but in terms of sophistication, for one thing. We remember the earlier, more ...

Decentralized exchange aggregator ParaSwap is launching an intent-based trading protocol designed to mitigate an issue costing millions of dollars on crypto transactions daily: MEV attacks. “MEV” ...

Headline fail - it's not a web protocol, it's an Internet protocol. In fact, there's no such thing as a web protocol, unless you just mean HTTP. Like the DNS attacks, this is not a problem with the ...

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols Exactly and Harbor were exploited on Aug. 18 in two separate — and apparently unrelated — attacks, according to blockchain security firms DeDotFi and PeckShield.

Scientists from China are aiming to create a communication protocol which can help protect traditional encryption methods from quantum computer attacks. Chinese scientists recently presented a draft ...

“While this protocol is young, it has already gained significant traction in the email community with all four major email providers — AOL, Gmail, Hotmail/Outlook, and Yahoo! Mail — already on board, ...

Firefox remains vulnerable to attacks exploiting protocol-handling bugs, even though it was patched twice in July, a pair of security researchers said this weekend. Billy Rios and Nate McFeters, who ...

Distance bounding protocols are pivotal in contemporary security systems, designed to verify the physical proximity of a device by measuring the round-trip time of cryptographic challenge–response ...