Unleash Protocol saw unauthorized withdrawals based on its decentralized governance mechanism. Losses are estimated at $3.9M, ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...